Choosing The Wrong Individual Health Insurance Plan Can Be Very Costly
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006There are literally hundreds of individual medical health insurance plans available today from a whole variety of different companies but choosing the wrong plan can end up costing you an arm and a leg. So how do you go about selecting the plan that is right for you?
Surprisingly enough the first thing you need to do is to forget about the cost of a plan and begin your search by deciding just what type of individual medical health insurance plan you need.
There are three main types of health insurance plan available today.
For many years the indemnity, or fee-for-service, plan dominated the market and this is the plan that most will recognize as it is a traditional form of insurance.
Rather like car insurance, an indemnity health insurance plan is not designed to cover everyday expenses but provides cover for accidents or unexpected illnesses and, in most cases, gives the policyholder a wide degree of freedom when it comes to deciding where to go and who to consult for treatmen (more...)
