How Do Low Income Families Find An Affordable Family Health Insurance Plan? (1)

How Do Low Income Families Find An Affordable Family Health Insurance Plan?
by : Donald Saunders

Although rising healthcare costs mean that it is not as easy as it used to be to find an affordable family health insurance plan, you can still find a plan which meets your budget providing you are willing to do some research.

Start by doing some comparison shopping using the Internet which gives you easy access to an enormous number of health insurance companies. Select several companies from your search and get a quote online by completing the simple application form which nearly all of the sites will provide.

Before starting your search though you will find it helpful to write down some basic information about yourself and your family's medical history which will make filling in the forms a little easier.

As soon as you have a number of quotes, pick those which look suitable at first sight and then consider the cover that each plan provides carefully and compare the plans to see which will give you the cover you are looking for at the price you can afford.

In reviewing each quote you should be aware of some common pitfalls.

You will find for example that there are a large number of great looking deals around with extremely affordable premiums but, on investigation, you will often find that these affordable premiums only apply to the first year of cover and that your premiums then rise considerably in the second and subsequent years.

You will also discover that a large number of companies offer low premiums as long as you do not make a claim against the policy. Once a claim is made however your premiums will rise markedly when it comes time to renew the plan.

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