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Where to Get Cheap Group Health Insurance Quotes Online
Posted by | Posted in Health Insurance | Posted on 13-01-2009
With all the different group health insurance plans out there, finding the cheapest plan with the best coverage can be a real pain in the you-know-what. Here’s an easy way to find cheap group health insurance quotes online.
Group Health Insurance Plans
Before you go shopping for group health insurance the first thing you need to do is sit down and figure out what type of insurance and what kinds of coverage you really need.
Most employers opt for managed health care plans – HMOs, PPOs, and POSs. These plans provide you with a network of health care providers which everyone in the plan goes to when they’re ill.
HMOs restrict you to using physicians within the network, while PPOs and POSs let you see non-network physicians for an extra fee. HMOs are the cheapest of the managed health care plans.
Group Health Insurance Coverage
Group health insurance plans all come with different coverages. Here are the main coverages you should consider:
* Hospital coverage pays for your hospital room and medical services.
* Surgical coverage pays for surgeons fees and surgical expenses.
* Physicians coverage pays for doctors’ office visits and hospital visits.
* Major medical coverage pays for catastrophic injury or illness expenses.
* Prescription drug coverage pays for all or part of prescription drug costs.
Comparison Shop
The difference in group health insurance plans from one insurance company to another can be $1,000 per person or more, so the first step toward getting cheap group health insurance is to comparison shop.
Thanks to the Internet you don’t have to visit a bunch of insurance companies or call their agents on the phone. All it takes is a couple of clicks of your mouse to get group insurance quotes from companies in your area.
Some of these websites offer insurance tips and advice, and some even let you talk with an insurance expert via their online chat service. (See link below.)
Visit http://www.LowerRateQuotes.com/health-insurance.html or click on the following link to get group health insurance quotes online from top-rated companies in your area and see how much you can save. You can get more health insurance tips by checking out their “Articles” section.
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Help answer the question about health insurance
How can insurance companies include preexisting conditions without a health care mandate?If there's no mandate, and insurance companies are forced to give me affordable health care regardless of preexisting conditions, that means I only have to get health insurance when I come down with cancer. I hear many Republicans stating that they are all for barring insurance companies from excluding those with preexisting conditions, but none of them explain how you can do so without a national mandate to buy health insurance like we have with auto insurance.
If you are self employeed you should take a serious look into Health Savings Accounts, for several reasons, starting with there is a huge savings on your monthly premiums regardless if you are insuring yourself or you and your family. Things that are considered by the insruance companies are the area you live in, the type of work you do and any pre-existing conditions you might have. If you are in the state of California, and you have employees, you need a minimum of two employees and/or 75% of the payroll to participate in the plan (regardless of HSA or regular insurance) to get a guaranteed issuance of the insurance.
If you are not self employeed but do have a job, again the HSA is great way to go, because you can make pretax contirbutions to the plan, take it with you where ever you go, and keep the insurance with you when you retire… which as common sense tells us, you are going to need healthcare much more in your retirement years (ie when you are older) then you will now. Also any qualified medical expenses can be paid tax free from the account, and once you hit your deductable out your account, anything above that is paid for by the backing insurance company.
One note about the non bias oppinon of "brokers," they get paid on a commission as well by the companies they represent, and some companies pay more than others. Just because you are working with an "independant" does not mean you are getting the best price, or service. You want to work with someone who knows the products that they work with inside and out, or have access to the people who do so that all your questions can be answered to your satisfaction. Some times a huge selection does not mean a huge savings in time and money.
1) Most employer provided health insurance is deducted "pre-tax" so there is no deduction on the tax return.
2) Your parents must be your dependents (or would have been your dependents except for the gross income test) for you to take a deduction anyway. So, unless you are supporting them: No.
most insurance will cover the costs you mention if the doctor thinks it is medically necessary.
That’s why I’m a healthcare voter… even though I have healtchare… I don’t want to ever see a loved one laying on their deathbed fighting with insurance companies… when they should be having their final moments with their loved ones. If you don’t vote for this man you are condemning 18,000 children, teens and adults to die every month becuase of a lack of health insurance in this country. THat’s 6 9/11′s per month and no one is going to war over that!!! We need healthcare for EVERYONE!!!!!!
If BS were currency – John McCain could bail out Wall Street himself.
Lucky!
Obama/Biden for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!! I love this guy, he IS professional and intellegent. anyone know where to get shirts and signs? i am going to cement one in front of my house. Obama/Biden for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!!
And people have the nerve to call Sen. Obama too “intellectual and professorial” – he’s spelling out the details in a way that you’ll never see Sen. McCain do, and his specific plans are the kinds of paid-for changes we need.
Well, if she's 40 and perfectly healthy, it's going to cost her about $500 a month to have a low/no deductible plan that covers checkups.
You BUY it on a month to month basis. If you want low monthly payments, you have to cut the coverage – like take a $10,000 deductible. Or higher. That would cut payments down to maybe $200 a month or less.
The older she is, the less healthy she is, the more it costs.
Your best bet, is to find a local, independent agent, who can help you balance cost with coverage.
Who’s qualifications(education wise)count more, Obama with 12 years as a constitutional law professor at Harvard or McCain who should have been tossed from the Naval Academy were it not for his dad and grandad being 4 star admirals. Not to mention how inept of a pilot he was. That plane was my dad’s tax dollars.
No.
The insurance through your husband's employer does not meet the test of having been established through the S-corp.
Multiple member LLC's can be taxed 3 different ways:
1. As a partnership
2. As a C corporation
3. As an S Corporation
The deductability of health insurance premiums for your LLC will depend on which of the 3 types of entities your LLC elected to be taxed at (the default is the partnership form of taxation).
Typically, you will be able to deduct 100% of your health insurance premiums although there are some specials considerations for owner/officers of S Corporations who own more than 2% of the company.
If you speak with a CPA or qualified tax advisor they should be able to give you plenty of good tips. One thing that you may want to mention is a medical reimbursement plan. Here is some more detail on medical reimbursement plans:
i htought the main reason of living in a society was to help each other out, am i wrong?
We’re going to win this election!
“That Ain’t Right!!!”
That’s Chris Rock’s Line from Head of State…
This Man is Classic…
Obama 08 BABY!!!
You've asked a very broad question. There is no simple answer.
In truth, health insurance works a little differently in each state.
To answer your specific questions:
1) No, health insurance is not compulsory for everyone. If you're lucky, you are able to join a group policy at work. (If you're really lucky, it's a good policy and the employer pays at least half of it.) Some states have recently made it compulsory, but that's such a recent change that there's no clear cut answer yet for how that's going to work.
2) What happens if someone can't afford it is… they don't get it, usually. Except if your income puts you below the "poverty level", in which case you qualify for Medicaid. (In some states there are programs that typically provide assistance with insuring children, though they are few and far between for covering adults.)
3) Health insurance rarely covers all the bills when you have a procedure done. Most plans cover 50-80% after you meet your deductible. The deductible amounts vary widely (but the trend is that the deductibles are getting higher and higher to keep the premiums down.) If you're really, REALLY lucky, you don't have a deductible (which is only an option on group plans), and you may only have to pay 10% of covered charges. (These plans are few and far between. As in, you might have them if you're in Congress.)
4) Yes, the patient has some say over procedures. However, if the patient opts for an "experimental" procedure, or one that isn't deemed "medically necessary", then health insurance may refuse to cover any charges at all.
In the end, as with most things, the middle class takes the brunt of these costs. This has become such a problem that more than 50% of all bankruptcies are as a result of medical bills (and of those, more than 75% had health insurance.)
** Edited to add:
It's not ALL about the money when a procedure is involved. If it is, the state keeps track of complaints filed on behalf of consumers with "managed care" (ie. any type of network arrangement including Preferred Provider Organizations, Health Maintenance Organizations, and Point of Service organizations — also known as PPO, HMO, and POS) and may very well revoke a company's charter to do business in the state should the company be turning down too many legitimate claims.
However, insurance companies are sticklers for following the "standard" for medical care. This is what makes it difficult to answer your question. Because they should not deny anything that's considered standard for care in the given circumstances (should not and will not being two completely different things, of course.) And there may be several options that would be considered "standard." If the patient wants treatment that isn't yet considered "standard", they would balk. Period.
It ain’t right! OBAMA 08
The purpose of any type of insurance is to protect against catastrophic loss. Using health insurance as an example, most everyday medical expenses are not very expensive (a physical exam averages $150.00+/-), but if you are admitted to the hospital for an emergency your medical bills would be in the tens of thousands of dollars at a minimum. If you do not have insurance you "self-insure" againts that potential catastrophic loss. Without insurance, the average person would face financial ruin if faced with a major loss.