Health Insurance

For Many Families, Health Care Costs Are Now the Single Largest Item in Their Budget

It’s tough for families – and for many healthcare costs more than their mortgage.

What makes it worse: According to a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and The New York Times the high deductibles necessary to make Obamacare affordable leaves one in five working-age Ameri...

For Middle Income Americans Obamacare Coverage Is Worse than Nothing

Under Obamacare people with health coverage can rack up huge medical bills despite having insurance. That’s because, for the majority of middle income Americans, the only coverage they can now afford are plans that feature excessively high deductibles – and because those are so e...

Feds Predict 60% Health Insurance Premium Increase in This Decade - Here's How To Hedge That Cost

The Congressional Budget Office predicted rate increases for health insurance plans purchased through the Affordable Care Act marketplace to be 8 percent a year until 2018, then 5 to 6 percent a year until 2025 — that outstrips income gains by 6 percent a year.

That would take av...

Don’t be a Do-It-Yourselfer and cobble together Cut-Rate Health Insurance!

If you are like a lot of hard working Americans and have decided that paying $1,000 or more a month for family health and dental plans through your job has become an excessive burden – then listen up.

You’ve probably searched for individual family plans on HealthCare.gov. These p...