FAQ: Health Insurance

Here are a few tips and pointers to finding health insurance. If you have suggestions, websites, etc., send me an email. Please pass this URL to friends and other lists.

Be sure to start with ehealthinsurance.com. This website offers side-by-side comparisons of plans and prices. Enter your zip code and get regionally specific information. One family found a plan that was a third of the cost of their current plan.

Thanks to... Paul, Robyn, Bruce, Marybeth, Judy, Amika, Jill, Kristen, Sue, Kathleen, Mary, Scott, Susan, Joy, Tom, and others.

Agents

Note: These are not in any particular order. These are recommendations from various people.

• Alan Bayer focuses on group or individual health insurance. Alan Bayer is with ACB Insurance Services. CA Lic. #0D28560. abayer@acbins.com or call (408) 771-4774.
• Linda Jacobs at a small agency specializes in insurance for small businesses. lindam@netgate.net at terranceinsurance.com
• April Fletcher with State Farm Insurance. Phone 510.794.5555
• Dan Groat has always done well by us (please tell him Richard Knee referred you.) themoneydoctor@prodigy.net in Folsom.

Websites

Note: These are not in any particular order. These are recommendations from various people.

• Writers in the San Francisco Bay Area should consider Media Alliance, which has a pretty a good health plan: Media-Alliance.org and www.media-alliance.org/services.html
• ehealthinsurance.com offers side-by-side comparisons of plans and prices.
• healthcareshopper.com
• norcalhealthinsurance.com
• thatinsurancesite.com
• healthinsurancefinders.com
• localinsurance.com
• quotesmith.com
• nasro-co-op.com
• smallbizgrowth.com
• txhealthpool.com
• kff.org
• ealthscope.org
• consumersunion.org
• hmohelp.ca.gov
• chcf.org
• Blue Shield of CA