Which Small Companies Should Add Health Insurance Benefits? Eventually, the question comes up in almost every small business: should we add health insurance as a benefit for our employees? If you have a small business and you haven’t sat down to work out the right answer to this question yet, one day you will. Actually, the basic decision Read more
Affordable Care Act or Medicaid: Which Is More Affordable? The question as to whether ACA health insurance or Medicaid is more affordable has a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is that it depends on the person’s situation. The long answer is long indeed! A person’s eligibility for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act Read more
What Will Your Health Insurance Cost You Under the ACA? First, let’s clear up some important terminology you’ll need to understand in this area. ACA stands for the Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010. According to the government, the purpose of this law was to make health insurance available to more Americans, including those with preexisting Read more
What You Should Know About Choosing the Right Health Insurance So you need health insurance! What’s your best path to getting the right health insurance for yourself or your family? There are websites that profess they will connect you up with the best plan. They will ask you questions and then recommend a plan based on your answers. Read more
When Can You Enroll in a New Health Insurance Plan? Do you know the exact date range during which you can enroll in a new comprehensive major medical insurance plan or change your health insurance? The dates that anyone (other than those looking for Medicare coverage) can start or change insurance coverage are from November 1 to December Read more
Navigating Health Insurance: What Are EPOs, PPOs, and HMOs? When a person is first approaching the subject of health insurance, all the different terminology can make their head spin. In this article, we’ll help you grasp the differences between EPOs, PPOs, and HMOs. An EPO is an exclusive provider organization. This is a health insurance plan that offers Read more
What You Should Know When Looking for Individual Health Insurance Unfortunately, acquiring health insurance has become a very confusing subject. It might even be as confusing as taxes—maybe more so in some situations. Each year, it seems more laws affect an individual, family, or business trying to obtain health insurance for the first time or when they are Read more
Why do we charge a fee for Enrollment? Because we work for you- not the big insurance companies A question I hear often is: ‘Why do you charge a fee? I could go to another broker or an insurance provider that signs me up for less – even nothing!’. Our answer is simple: our fee means we work Read more
If you meet certain income requirements, you can sign up for Health Insurance anytime in 2022! The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services recently announced a SEP (Special Enrollment Period) for the ACA (Affordable Care Act) that lets certain households sign up for affordable Health Insurance anytime in 2022. We know that’s a lot of jargon, so to Read more
If you're not in the mood to watch a video, here's a quick summary: This Enrollment Period will run from February 15 to May 15, 2021 The Plans available are not different from the plans in the last normal Open Enrollment If your old ACA Health plan changed on you, this gives you the choice to update & improve Read more