If you need to buy health insurance, the number of choices may seem overwhelming.
The following link offers information from the HealthCare.gov website:
How to Pick a Health Insurance Plan: 3 Things to Know
Here is a guide from Consumer Reports, a well-known independent source of consumer information:
8 Expensive Insurance Mistakes: How to avoid paying too much for the protection you need
Read the full article to learn more about these eight mistakes to avoid:
- thinking that you don’t need health insurance because you are healthy
- picking a plan based only on low premiums
- carelessly going out of network
- missing the Medicare sign-up deadline
- picking the wrong Medicare drug plan
- not using flexible spending accounts
- not using your insurer's preferred pharmacy or mail-order service
- not keeping young-adult children on your insurance
