Insurance Blog Week in Review – Week of March 4 – 11, 2012

Each and every week, there can be anywhere between twelve and fourteen different blogs appearing on the Insurance Blog. Keeping up with the Insurance Blog is a good way to stay informed about insurance changes that can affect your family. Use the Week in Review is a quick way to “ketchup”! Examining a Potential Health Insurance Plan I am, once again, attempting to find an affordable health insurance policy. In this blog, I go over what some of the abbreviations, phrases, and numbers in the health plan I am looking at actually mean. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on … Continue reading

Thoughts on Health Insurance While I am Sick

I am among the thousands of Americans that has absolutely no health insurance coverage. It feels like a twisted, malicious, cosmic joke that I happen to be searching for affordable health insurance while I am fighting a bad cold. Here are my thoughts about this situation, as I cough my way through the night. I have heard insurance companies complain that too many people wait to buy health insurance until after they are already sick. This troubles insurers who are now, legally, unable to reject the applications for a health insurance plan that are submitted by people who have serious, … Continue reading

Do You Have Life Insurance?

Before my daughter was born, my husband and I never discussed the need or desire for a life insurance policy – oddly enough, it was one of the first topics of discussion we shared during a long night in her first week of life while we were sitting together, the baby sleeping soundly in my arms. Life is so very precious and a life that young and that tiny seems infinitely more precious – because the thoughts that go through your head are what happens if you’re not there? What happens if tomorrow never comes? What will happen to your … Continue reading