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Finding Health Insurance if You Are Self-Employed

Seeded on Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:06 AM EDT
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business, small-business, health-insurance, entrepreneurs, self-employed, freelancers
Seeded by Marilyn L
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IF there is one issue that divides the self-employed from all other employees, it is their preoccupation with the subject of health insurance.

I was reminded of this on Feb. 14, when I wrote a post on the Shifting Careers blog asking small-business owners and would-be entrepreneurs what they were doing about health insurance. Within hours, scores of people posted comments about their own experiences and, if they had managed to find good resources, shared those. I have been reading e-mail messages and trying to make sense of the subject ever since. In short, it is not pretty out there.

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Health insurance for the self-employed is one of my hot buttons. Here's a fine article about it, with links to help you in your search for health insurance.

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Reply#1 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:08 AM EDT
Dan Charles

I have coverage through my wife's job (I own a small business), but there are significant gaps in the plan as we discovered after receiving an ablation through an out of network provider that I was referred to by my in network cardiologist (Except for no interest, we have what will eventually become two mortgage payments).

    Reply#2 - Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:27 PM EDT
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