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Do You Speak Health Insurance? It’s Not Easy

Solicit opinions about health insurance and you’re almost guaranteed to find consensus: It’s mystifying and irritating. “It just seems like a lot of the buzzwords are intended to just complicate

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Avoid These Traps When Shopping for Health Insurance

Health insurance is tricky to shop for. You pay a ton of money just to try to stay healthy, and if you get seriously sick or injured, you could still

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Oscar, The Health Insurance Startup That Wants To Revolutionize Healthcare

Growing up in India, Suyog Mody was always one call away from a doctor. When Mody wasn’t feeling well, his parents would run his symptoms by his aunt or uncle,

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How to Decipher Health Insurance’s Perplexing Terminology

Deciphering the terminology used by health insurance companies can be confusing and vexing. The sea of gimmicky marketing buzzwords is piling on each year, resulting in making consumers do more

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How To Get Cheaper Health Insurance For 2016: Smart Shopping On Obamacare …

Looks can always be deceiving, but particularly so in health insurance, where the cheapest upfront plans often lead to major sticker shock after the actual doctor visit. But with a

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The Uninsured: A Primer – Key Facts about Health Insurance and the Uninsured

Millions of people in the United States go without health insurance each year. Because nearly all of the elderly are insured by Medicare, most uninsured Americans are nonelderly (under age

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5 things you need to do when buying health insurance

Steven Conner, a 56-year-old self-employed contractor in Gresham, learned recently his health plan premium will jump by $145 a month. Conner is not alone. In June the state approved significant

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10 Basic Health Insurance Questions Answered: I Asked So You Don’t Have To

From deductibles, to premiums, to out-of-pocket maximums — buying health insurance can be wildly confusing. I know this, because I am getting ready to buy health insurance for the first

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Health insurance premiums going up

Premiums will increase less than insurers wanted in 2016 for health plans sold on the Affordable Care Act’s Pennsylvania marketplace, but the requested increases could come in later years, the

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Out-of-network health care costs more. A lot more

If you go “out of network” to get health care, your bank book might go into the red. A new analysis finds that people who get common treatments from doctors

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