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Shop Smart: Common mistakes when picking a health insurance plan

Shop Smart: Common mistakes when picking a health insurance plan

Whether you get your health insurance through your employer, Medicare or one of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, there's a good chance you're paying more than you need to.According to a study last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, 63 percent of the 50,000 employees at a Fortune 100 company selected a health plan that was not the most cost-effective option.Picking an insurance plan is downright confusing.


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Colorado voters to consider a state-level single payer health insurance system – FSRN

Colorado voters to consider a state-level single payer health insurance system – FSRN

In Colorado, citizens are voting on another potentially historic ballot measure.Amendment 69 or the ColoradoCare initiative, would create the nation's first state-run single payer health insurance system, a plan major players in the healthcare and insurance industry and donating millions to defeat.FSRN's Hannah Leigh Myers has more from Denver.


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Zimdars: Medicare-for-all is health insurance solution

Zimdars: Medicare-for-all is health insurance solution

An Oct. 28 story in the Athens Banner-Herald/OnlineAthens.com described an Arizona family's fears that they "only have plans from one insurer available next year, and the company doesn't appear to cover an expensive immune-system medication for the 11-year-old daughter.""Choice" has been reduced because UnitedHealth Group (2014 CEO compensation: $66.1 million), Aetna, Humana, and other for-profit health insurance companies will stop selling Obamacare policies in most states next year.This lack of "choice" is viewed by some as a failure of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.But did Obama cause the lack of choice or raise insurance premiums for 2017?


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CDC: Progress on health insurance could stall this year

CDC: Progress on health insurance could stall this year

By Don BishopNew information from the feds indicates less progress on health insurance enrollment.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that progress reducing the number of Americans without health insurance is threatening to stall this year.The uninsured number dipped by only 200,000 people between 2015 and the first six months of this year, according to the CDC's National Health Interview Survey.


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Many Americans don't know much about health insurance — and it will cost them

Many Americans don't know much about health insurance — and it will cost them

Voters in Colorado will weigh in next week on Amendment 69, a referendum that would create a first-in-the-nation, single-payer health system called Coloradocare, which would replace Obamacare in the state.And the survey of more than 2,000 insurance consumers found that despite that overconfidence about terms relating to out-of-pocket costs, half the population said it is only "somewhat confident" in their ability to select the right health insurance plan for their needs — with 12 percent of them saying they are not confident "at all."Jennifer Fitzgerald, CEO and co-founder of PolicyGenius, said the findings — which come as millions of Americans prepare to sign up for 2017 health coverage — are sobering because they put consumers at a big potential financial disadvantage from picking the wrong insurance plan, or not understanding their exposure to charges when they seek treatment.