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March 14, 2010
Monty Python – Motor Insurance sketch
Another Gumby announcement and the Motor Insurance sketch (season 2, episode 17: The Buzz Aldrin Show).
Finding A Health Insurance Plan In Florida
Some strategies on finding affordable health insurance in Florida.
I’ve been a health insurance agent since 1985. I help Connecticut residents find health insurance and have for the last several years have also managed a website that helps people in other states including Florida find health insurance. You can find a health insurance broker in Florida by requesting quotes through my site.
Health Insurance Plans of Florida — Tips to Help You Pick the Right Policy
Choosing the best health insurance plan involves the following:
Finding a policy with or without using a health insurance broker in Florida who can offer you the lowest cost (but only with respect to the other two criteria)
Finding one of the health insurance plans of Florida that has a network that meets your needs
Finding the Florida health insurance plan with coverage that meets your needs
Choosing the right medical insurance policy involves finding the best rate quote amongst the Florida health insurance plans that meet your needs as to network and coverage. Choosing the lowest price is of course very easy. Determining whether the health insurance plan’s network of doctors meets your needs is only a little more difficult. Choosing a health insurance policy that covers you well can be complex. You may want to enlist the aid of a licensed health insurance broker in Florida. Most of this article focuses on the basics of determining how well a policy covers you.
In a perfect world, everyone would read and understand their insurance policies. However, I realize that many people will find a health insurance broker in Florida that they feel comfortable with and will want his or her recommendations. However, whether you use a broker or not, I strongly recommend that you contact the Florida office of Insurance Regulation in Tallahassee, FL (850) 413-3140 and make sure that any health insurance plan is approved by them. Insurance Departments cannot ensure that you get the best policy for your individual needs, but they do their best to make sure that each health insurance plan and each health insurance broker meets certain minimum standards. Be sure to work with companies and brokers that are in good standing.
Choosing the Florida Health Insurance Plan with the Right Network
Health insurance carriers usually have websites that will list the MDs and medical facilities that accept their plans. All that I’m aware of will have a printed list that they can mail to you. The right plan will have your physician on their list or at least physicians who are located a convenient distance from your home. If you travel it is important to find a plan that covers you well in other geographic areas as well.
Choosing the Florida Health Insurance Plan with the best coverage for you
Health insurance policies may be the most complex of the insurance contracts offered to individuals and families. Understanding how your medical plan will pay for your medical bills can be difficult. Fortunately most of the brochures and outlines of coverage that you may receive from a health insurance provider will have a similar structure. They will have sections similar to the following:
What is Covered?
Health Plan Exclusions and Limitations
What is Covered?
This section will detail what medical procedures your health insurance policy will cover. The policy should have a phrase like “reasonable and customary” or “usual, reasonable and customary” or something similar when describing how much they will cover.
Watch out for health insurance policies with:
Monetary limits for each procedure
A long list of procedures that the medical insurance policy will cover
Better health insurance policies will not list dollar amounts for each procedure. They will pay using a formula that is based on what other physicians and hospitals will charge you in the same geographic area. A phrase like “usual and customary” indicates that they use such a formula. The cost of medical care rises so quickly that a dollar amount that seems impressive today may not fully reimburse you even a year from now.
Solid health Insurance policies will not have a long list of procedures that they will cover listed on the policy. The long list seems impressive because the list takes up a lot of space. Look at the statements below. It should be easy to choose between one and two.
”Our health insurance plan will cover you for everything except for expenses caused by self-inflicted injuries and substance abuse.” (“I’ve been to every city in Florida except Orlando.”)
”Our health insurance policy will cover your nose, your ears, your toes, your hands, your right lung, your calf and your knee” (“I’ve been to Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and Miami Beach”)
Health Plan Exclusions and Limitations
This section will tell you what is excluded. Typically plastic surgery will not be covered. Also experimental procedures and expenses caused by self-inflicted injuries will not be covered. You should understand each of these limitations before you commit to a policy. Most policies will not include maternity insurance, so if you want to get pregnant, make sure that you know how your policy will cover maternity expenses. Unfortunately, maternity insurance is not available in many states except as part of a group insurance plan.
To summarize:
Determine what health insurance plans will cover you in your area
Determine which health insurance plans offer adequate coverage
Choose the plans that offers the best value based on price and coverage
The health insurance options Orlando residents have are similar to the health insurance options Miami residents have, since the plans will work in similar ways throughout the state.
This article can be copied and reprinted but only in its entirety and with the links intact. The article was originally published on https://lovetherates.com/articles/health-insurance-broker-florida-article.htm. The article starts with the heading “Hospitalization Only Insurance” and ends with this sentence.
Alston J. Balkcom has been a licensed insurance agent since 1985. He manages several insurance-based websites including https://1800insuranceCT.com and https://lovetherates.com.
March 13, 2010
Low-cost Florida Health Insurance Scarce – Health Insurance Higher Than Minimum Wage
Florida residents who can afford health insurance pay an average of $11,480 per year for family coverage, which is about what the average minimum-wage earner brings home. Premiums are up 87% according to Kaiser Family Foundation. The days of “low-cost” health insurance are all but gone unless you have help from a professional insurance consultant.
The cost of caring for “disease” continues to rise faster than inflation according to an article this month in Newsweek magazine. It said “over 47 million Americans don’t have health insurance at all”. Those with low-cost health insurance usually get these from employers, but with costs rising, it is obvious that the health insurance situation in Florida is getting worse.
Taking care of employees is the primary concern of a good employer. But that has been perceived as “expensive” by some companies as it means providing the employee with vacations, bonuses, incentive pay, and of course, health insurance coverage. In the future, Florida businesses may be able to offer low-cost health insurance to residents who are willing to make a few changes in lifestyle.
The New England Journal of Medicine published a major study on health insurance recently that said low cost insurance rates may be made available to those willing to go through a certified “health risk assessment”. These health risk managers look at your lifestyle, and your current state of health, and certify that the person is “healthy” and a “low-risk” which can qualify the applicant for lower insurance rates. The only other way to get low-cost health insurance in Florida is to get it from your employer as part of their group health insurance plan.
There are many health insurance consultants out there who can help Floridians find low-cost insurance, such as Florida Health Insurance Web – www.FloridaHealthInsuranceWeb.com – insurance consultant, Morgan Moran said, “Change a few things about your lifestyle, and lower rates could be available”. The insurance industry believes, most people would change a few things to get lower insurance rates, and assure living a longer happier life. These changes may include a better diet, more exercise, and less high risk behavior like “skydiving” or “bungee jumping”. Until now, insurance plans rarely took behavior into account.
Many Floridians are looking for a quick fix. If they can take a pill or have a stint plugged into their heart they would, rather than change their lifestyle, after all, it does sound easier. The New England Journal confirmed what other research showed— that angioplasties and stints don’t prolong life and don’t even prevent heart attacks, yet $30 billion was spent on those last year. Mutual of Omaha found that almost 76% percent of people eligible for angioplasty or heart bypass surgery were able to “safely avoid it by making the comprehensive lifestyle changes”, saving almost $30,000 per person. It is plain to see that changing lifestyle is more cost effective than surgery.
Low-Cost Insurance Consultation
In an effort to find affordable health insurance rates, many are turning to health insurance consultants for help. In a phone interview, consultant Morgan Moran said, “The best way to find affordable, low-cost health insurance is to have an employer-sponsored group health insurance plan.” Group health insurance plans are the most affordable, low cost health insurance plans out there, aside from state-sponsored health insurance plans. If you can obtain health insurance from your employer, you will pay even less for your health insurance than you would if you purchased a group health insurance plan on your own.
Most employers have certain requirements an employee must meet before he or she can be a part of the employer-sponsored group health insurance plan. These requirements range from the number of hours the employee works, to the employee’s status, i.e., whether the employee works full-time or part-time. Employers sometimes have time requirements as well. This means the employee must be with the company for a certain amount of time before he or she is considered eligible for the employer-sponsored group health insurance plan.
Employer-sponsored group health insurance plans are usually the most affordable, low cost health insurance plans for a variety of reasons. If you have an employer-sponsored group health insurance plan, the health insurance premiums are either divided between you and your employer, or paid completely by your employer. This means one of two things. Either you are required to pay half of the health insurance premiums plus a low cost co-payment or you are only required to pay an affordable co-payment.
Employer-sponsored group health insurance plans like this have become even more affordable and low cost when you factor in your spouse and children. Rather than purchase individual health insurance policies for each of your family members, or pay out-of-pocket for health care costs, you can add your spouse and your children to your employer-sponsored group health insurance plan.
Rates on health insurance policies change daily, and vary from carrier to carrier so it’s a good idea to speak to a consultant like Moran. Their fees are paid by the carrier without passing the cost along to the consumer. Find out more at www.FloridaHealthInsuranceWeb.com
Zane Durant — News Correspondent for several independent new sources. Contact Zane in Maui, Hawaii (808) 214-2032.
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Things To Consider When Shopping For Business Insurance
If you’ve ever stood in the cold remedies section of a drugstore or grocery store, perplexed by the sheer number of choices, you have taste of what it’s like to shop for business insurance. In an attempt to be all things to all people, the insurance industry has created a seemingly limitless variety of insurance offerings, most of which you don’t want or don’t need.
But you must have decided that you want something, or you wouldn’t have chosen to read this article. How do you make intelligent business decisions when it comes to insurance coverage for your business and your employees? It’s no small task, but with some careful thought and the suggestions offered here, you can intelligently weigh the options.
The first part of this article is intended for readers shopping for insurance as employee benefits. If you’re more interested in purchasing insuring for your business, skip to “Insuring your business.”
Call an Expert
If you’re an employer or business owner, you probably have more urgent, value-add activities than researching insurance. If you do, it makes good business sense to call a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), such as Workforce Solutions, to discuss your insurance needs. A PEO provides all the services you would expect an internal Human Resources department to provide, including benefits administration, but it is a separate entity from the organization to which it delivers these services. PEOs deliver expert and efficient employee-related administration, sharing the responsibility and risk of managing workers. They can assess the insurance needs of your employees and shop for a package that meets them and that you can afford.
Know What You’re Looking For
Before you can accurately determine the cost of insurance, and before insurers’ quotes will be meaningful for you, you need to determine the kind of coverage you need. And that means knowing something more about your employees than you might already know. What kinds of insurance do they need and what do they already have? What coverage will be most important to them ten to twenty years in the future?
While this type of information may not be readily available-and it may be illegal for you to ask questions that would help-you can discern a great deal about your employees’ insurance needs merely from demographic information. Older employees are more likely to need long-term disability insurance or health plans with greater lifetime maximum benefits. Younger workers will be more concerned about family coverage and manageable co-payments and deductibles than about their long-term needs. Similarly, life insurance appeals more to workers over the age of 35 than to employees just entering the workforce.
If your business is in a large urban area where most employees use public transportation, group discounts on auto insurance will be less attractive than they would be in rural or suburban settings where most employees drive to work.
Your insurance benefits package can’t be tailored to meet all the needs of every employee, but you can learn in broad terms what types of insurance hold the broadest appeal to your workforce.
Insuring your Business
As with the employee benefits side of insurance you have a sometimes bewildering array of choices when it comes to deciding whether and how to insure your business. However, at least one part of that question-whether to insure-should be fairly easy to answer. Insurance is a basic risk mitigation tool. Simply stated, insurance another entity’s promise, in exchange for your payment, to step in and support you financially if certain risks become reality. To decide whether you need insurance, simply determine the risks to which your business is subject, assess what it would cost if the risks were realized, then ask yourself if you have the resources on hand to cover those costs. If you do not, you need insurance.
Common risks for which business insurance is sought include:
Legal liability
Loss of property due to theft, fire, or acts of nature
Loss of life of key decision makers
Loss from business interruption
Automobile insurance for company vehicles
Choosing appropriate and cost-effective insurance is not as simple, as determining that you need it, but it helps to remember that all insurance is a guarantee of recovery in the event of loss. It is up to you to determine what property, persons, and/or security you cannot afford to lose or replace and insure accordingly.
Liability insurance is a typical example of insurance coverage for businesses. Most businesses incur some risk of litigation in the daily conduct of business. A liability insurance policy assumes some of that risk so that if a policyholder is sued while conducting business, the policy provides financial relief according to terms the insurer and insured have agreed upon.
What to Consider
With these fundamentals in mind, it should be clear what you need to think about in connection with your insurance coverage:
What assets should I protect from loss? Your business probably owns assets in the form of equipment or property that are required for your business to function. These are the assets you should protect with insurance.
What types of loss should I insure against? The nature of your business and your geographical location will introduce business-specific risks, and your insurance provider can help you determine what those are. In addition, remember that no business is immune to loss from fire or theft, no matter the location or industry.
Many small businesses are relatively low-risk ventures; they operate office equipment in a stable environment and do not have exceptionally valuable property that requires coverage. Because these businesses are so common, insurance carriers have created a package of standard coverage that usually meets the needs of these organizations. Called a BOP, or Business Owner’s Policy, the package typically covers property and liability as well as loss due to theft or vandalism. You can most likely also add other types of coverage based on your specific business needs. If you’re shopping for insurance for your business, ask your agents about BOPs. It will probably save you a great deal of legwork.
Choosing an Insurer
Allstate has good advice in this regard. It suggests that you search for a company willing to work with you individually to:
Review your current coverage
Identify gaps in your business insurance and where your firm could be at risk
Understand your options, as well as their insurance products and services
Protect your business or, if disaster does strike, help you through the claims process
This is sound advice. Also remember that a PEO like Workforce Solutions can do all of the heavy lifting for you. Their staff has the insurance expertise you or your business might lack and work with large numbers of insurance providers to help get the coverage you need at a reasonable price. If you choose not to work with a PEO, you can get a lot of help from a high-quality agent or broker. She can help you assess your insurance needs and will shop for the best coverage.
Workforce Solutions – Human Resource Outsourcing is located in Utah and provides HR outsourcing services. Learn more about small business insurance.
Van Insurance — How to Find the Cover for your Business Needs Quick & Easy
It can be very difficult to make good decisions about van insurance for your business and what it needs. With careful thought and adequate knowledge, however, you will at least be able to weigh the options in an educated way. Here are some suggestions to help you make the best decision for your van insurance.
One thing that can help you in your van insurance decisions is calling in an expert. Since you have better things to do than spend all your valuable time researching insurance, a Professional Employer Organization, or PEO, can help you find good van insurance for your company. Workforce Solutions is one example of a PEO that will provide the services of an HR department for your company. This means that benefits and other HR responsibilities are available to your company from this separate entity. A PEO can help you by providing expert administration of your workers, so you don’t have to deal with the trouble. They are able to help you find out what the best insurance for your employees will be, and they have the resources to find package deals to save you money.
Another thing that will help you greatly in your van insurance search is to know what you need. Coverage is different for different situations. This means you must have accurate information about your employees to determine which quote will be best for you. It can be helpful to find out what van insurance they already have, and what van insurance will be most helpful to them.
Depending on your situation, it may not be feasible to ask the kind of questions you need to in order to get the information you need. This is where demographic information about your employees can help. For instance, older employees may need long term disability insurance, or better health plans. Your younger workers, on the other hand, may want family coverage, low co-payments, and better deductibles. Longer term benefits are less important to them. Workers over thirty-five will find that life insurance appeals to them more than to younger employees.
Group discounts on van insurance can be very attractive in some businesses, but if many of your employees rely on public transit to get to work, they may desire it less. Group van insurance discounts are best for businesses in rural or suburban locations.
Of course, insurance packages won’t meet every employee’s needs. You must try to please the majority, but it won’t be possible to please everyone. However, you can learn the general needs of your employees, so far as insurance goes.
In addition to insuring you employees, you must insure your business. Insurance is a basic tool that you can use to reduce your business’s risk. Deciding whether or not you need to be insured is simple. Merely calculate what you would have to pay if a problem occurred, then decide if you’re capable of covering that cost without seriously interrupting your business. If you can’t, then you should call upon insurance to protect you.
There are some common risks that businesses often look for insurance to mitigate. These include legal liabilities; property loss due to fire, theft, or acts of nature; Loss of important decision makers; loss of money due to business interruption; and insurance for company cars and vans.
Unfortunately, it’s not as easy to pick the right, affordable insurance as it is to decide that you need to have it. It is, however, important to remember that your insurance guarantees recovery of losses in the event of a claim. Therefore, you should determine what you can’t afford to lose in an emergency, and insure those.
Liability insurance is one very popular kind of insurance used by businesses. Most businesses will have some risk of being sued through their daily business conduct. Liability insurance policies meant that this risk is not borne solely by the policyholder. If you are sued in the course of conducting business, a liability policy will help provide relief from these expenses based on your agreed terms.
Keep these basic in mind when you plan you business’s insurance coverage. Decide what assets must be protected. These can be equipment and property that are vital to doing business. To avoid big problems later, make sure that you protect these with insurance coverage.
Decide as well what kind of loss to insure yourself against. Different locations and different kinds of businesses incur different risks. You insurance provider will be able to help you decide which kinds of protection are most important. Remember, however, that no business is proof against fire or theft, even if you appear to be in a safe location or industry.
Most small businesses don’t incur a great deal of risk. Their offices are generally operated in a stable location and there is little of great value on the premises. Because this is a very common way to do business, most insurance carriers have a form of standard small business insurance coverage. This insurance is usually referred to as a BOP, which stands for Business Owner’s Policy. It normally contains property coverage, liability insurance, and protects against loss from theft or vandalism. You can usually add other coverages to these packages to customize them for your business. If you’ are hoping to get a standard van insurance package without a great deal of work, ask your insurance agent or provider whether they offer a BOP.
When choosing an insurer, make sure that you look for a company that will work with you individually. They should be willing to help you look over your current coverage, identify areas where you have holes in your van insurance coverage and might be at risk, comprehend your options and their products and services, and to help protect you business from danger. If a problem does occur, your insurance company should be willing to help you through the claims process without a problem.
If you are not ready to do all of this yourself, you can get help through the Van Insurance Britain.co.uk The staff of these organizations have the skills and experience to get your business properly insured. They are also familiar with many insurance providers, so they know the ins and outs of the insurance business and can get you the right coverage at a good price. If you need insurance for either your employees or your company in general, a PEO such as Workforce Solutions is a great place to look.
Peter Fitzpatrick is a Marketing Professional for many of the UK’s Leading Commercial Insurance companies. With 20 years worth of commercial insurance experience, for companies including: Norwich Union, Churchill and Zurich. To learn more on van insurance quote, tips visit his website http://www.van-insurance-britain.co.uk
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Appearance of Auto Insurance News
The first auto insurance policy was issued in the USA. In 1898 the Travelers Insurance Company has insured a auto for the first time. Now it is impossible to imagine the auto without an insurance policy on the roads of any civilized country.
Mr. Truman Martin became the first owner of the insured auto. He paid $12.25 for the auto insurance. And in the case of an accident he could get only $500. The price of the auto insurance policy was rather high. However, Mr. Truman’s wish to get the auto insurance policy was reasonable. The thing is that it was only 4000 people, who were able to buy a auto. Horses were the main kind of transport. They made a great danger for drivers, but auto insurance wasn’t widespread.
Situation concerning USA auto insurance changed at the 1920s, because Ford’s Conveyor opened. A number of the autos on the roads increased sharply and it was necessary to insure drivers against the emergency conditions. From this moment USA auto insurance became obligatory (not only voluntary insurance as some years ago).
Strong requirement to insure autos was officially introduced in the Massachusetts State in 1925. A short time later other states followed this example. Idea of the auto insurance aroused keen interest among the population. The auto was rather luxury, than usual transport, and nobody wanted to sustain damage.
After the example of the USA auto insurance was introduced in European countries. Thus in the fifties auto insurance became obligatory in Europe too.
Today most people have already known about different kinds of that insurance, USA auto insurance companies and can choose proper insurance scheme. There are several hundreds of the auto insurance companies at the auto insurance market. Every company offers different scheme. And you should choose suitable insurance company and conditions. A number of the questions usually appear exactly at this stage. Of course most of us are not professional at the USA auto insurance sphere. That’s why we decided to dedicate several articles to the theory of auto insurance.
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The first auto insurance policy was issued in the USA. In 1898 the Travelers Insurance Company has insured a auto for the first time. Now it is impossible to imagine the auto without an insurance policy on the roads of any civilized country.
Mr. Truman Martin became the first owner of the insured auto. He paid $12.25 for the auto insurance. And in the case of an accident he could get only $500. The price of the auto insurance policy was rather high. However, Mr. Truman’s wish to get the auto insurance policy was reasonable. The thing is that it was only 4000 people, who were able to buy a auto. Horses were the main kind of transport. They made a great danger for drivers, but auto insurance wasn’t widespread.
Situation concerning USA auto insurance changed at the 1920s, because Ford’s Conveyor opened. A number of the autos on the roads increased sharply and it was necessary to insure drivers against the emergency conditions. From this moment USA auto insurance became obligatory (not only voluntary insurance as some years ago).
Strong requirement to insure autos was officially introduced in the Massachusetts State in 1925. A short time later other states followed this example. Idea of the auto insurance aroused keen interest among the population. The auto was rather luxury, than usual transport, and nobody wanted to sustain damage.
After the example of the USA auto insurance was introduced in European countries. Thus in the fifties auto insurance became obligatory in Europe too.
Today most people have already known about different kinds of that insurance, USA auto insurance companies and can choose proper insurance scheme. There are several hundreds of the auto insurance companies at the auto insurance market. Every company offers different scheme. And you should choose suitable insurance company and conditions. A number of the questions usually appear exactly at this stage. Of course most of us are not professional at the USA auto insurance sphere. That’s why we decided to dedicate several articles to the theory of auto insurance.
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Bill Moyers on Max Baucus and Senate health insurance reform bill
BILL MOYERS: You know from the news that early next week the Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on its version of health care reform. And therein lies another story of money and politics. Polls show the overwhelming majority of Americans favor a non-profit alternative — like Medicare — that would give the private health insurance industry some competition. But if so many Americans and the President himself want that public option, how come we’re not getting one? Because, the medicine has been poisoned from day one, in part because of that same revolving door that Congresswoman Kaptur and Simon Johnson were just talking about. Movers and shakers rotate between government and the lucrative private sector at a speed so dizzying they forget who they’re working for.