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Why We Left Traditional Health Insurance

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a touchy subject. Instead I’m writing about my family’s experience with traditional health insurance and how it has affected OUR finances. When I resigned from my corporate job, my boss asked me what my husband and I were going to do about health insurance.

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How Do You Handle Increasing Expenses?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It was the email that arrives each November informing me that the information regarding our health care coverage options for the next calendar year was available for review, and the enrollment period would be opening soon. How do you handle an increase in monthly expenses like health care?

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5 Insurance Issues for Entrepreneurs

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the United States, health coverage is a big deal. Once you strike out on your own, you could find yourself without health insurance coverage. While health insurance doesn’t completely protect against high bills, it can reduce some of the impact. Who Needs Umbrella Liability Insurance?

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Post Christmas Thoughts

Nicoles Nickels

I lost a job, lost health insurance, lost a house, lost what I thought was my identity and had to start from scratch. But when I hear others talk down about people on food stamps or health care aid or other such programs, now I speak up. Just like every other Christmas that has come before this one.

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7 Steps To Homelessness And What To Do If You Get There

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Her health care is via the Veteran’s Administration as she has no health insurance. She is on the low income payment plan for electricity and uses her Social Security check to pay that and the water bill. She gets all her food from the food pantry, which she visits on her bicycle.

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Are You Financially Ready For Kids?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Besides, if times get hard and you do need to work 2-3 part-time jobs , you can pull that off much easier when you don’t have to figure out babysitting and day care fees. Do I Have Health Care Insurance? . What’s My Living Situation? .

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Why We Chose Medi-Share, an affordable solution to traditional health insurance

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a touchy subject and everyone has a different point of view depending on their own life experience. For us, health insurance became a thorn in our side many years ago when I left a corporate job with benefits for a life of self-employment. We were basically buying catastrophic insurance.