Compare Individual Health Insurance Plans
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006With the many choices of insurance plans out there, you have to ask yourself, ?Which one should I take?? What s more, if you are not familiar with the insurance terms such as premiums and deductibles, you may end up getting a plan which may be too expensive or offer lesser benefits than you had expected. So when choosing a plan, you need to be certain whether you want to get an individual health insurance plan or a group insurance plan.
Individual health insurance plan vs. group insurance plan
If you want to get an individual health insurance plan, you have to go to an agent. Individual policies have laws and regulations that are very different from the group or job-based insurance plan. As a matter of fact, the benefits and protection that individual policies offer are often not as good as the ones that the group insurance plan does. But of course, this varies from state to state.
One disadvantage of getting an individual health insurance plan is that you can be turned down based on (more...)
