Health Insurance

High-Deductible Plan? Let's Lower Some Costs

In an effort to reduce their healthcare premiums, many people decide to enroll in a high-deductible plan.

These plans don’t begin to cover medical expenses until a certain monetary threshold for the year, the deductible, is met. For example – if a plan has a deductible of $500, a...

Is Short-Term Health Insurance The Right Choice For Younger Healthier Individuals?

Health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is set up to be heavily funded by young healthy individuals who pay for coverage, but typically don’t get sick. People in their 20s and 30s who were able to get well-paying jobs right of out college might not mind payi...

Short-term health plans grow as cheap alternative to ObamaCare

The End of Obamacare Subsidies?

New language in some contracts for health insurance companies looking to sell coverage through the Obamacare exchanges has observers questioning if tax subsidies for plan enrollees is going away.

The new language says insurers can drop their exchange plan if the federal tax subsi...