An interesting article about Health Insurance from the Journal. Unfortunately, most of it seems to be tailor made only for those who have severe medical problems:

“Nine times out of 10, if you can get access to employer-sponsored group coverage, take the employer-sponsored policy,” says Karen Politz, a research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. “Dollar-for-dollar, you get a lot more protection.”

This is true especially if you have serious health issues that would eliminate you from qualifying for individual coverage. (more…)

Nothing is more important than having a community pharmacy to depend on.

John Stossel did a 20/20 piece last week on Whole Foods helping their employees really manage their health care costs. It’s an excellent display, not just of how market forces can keep prices down, but how the absolute best person to determine how to spend your health care dollars is guess who? You.

The long and short of it is…as long as someone else (whether it’s your employer or your government) is making the decision on how you spend your money, the less efficiently that money is going to be spent.

Here’s the article.

An excellent article from Kiplinger about the simple fact that getting individual health insurance should not be, and indeed is not, a mysterious and impossible task.

You can get Health Insurance

Kimberly Lankford, the author, does a good job of both dispelling some myths about affordability, and cites some good examples of those who have solved their problems; typically by consulting a broker and getting an affordable plan with a high deductible.