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Meet a Reader | Maria in Florida

The Frugal Girl

This posed the problem of paying in full for both our health insurance plans since our employers no longer contributed to our healthcare needs. Our best frugal win has been our health insurance plan. Since retiring we have become gym buddies and have taken advantage of this great health benefit.

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An Update on Medi-Share – September 2017

Family Balance Sheet

As open enrollment nears for many health insurance plans, I thought this would be a great time to give you an update on Medi-Share, the health sharing ministry that we are using in place of traditional health insurance. Health insurance has been a long winding road for us over the last few years.

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How Do You Handle Increasing Expenses?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We decided to make small cuts from several areas to free up the extra funds needed to cover the increase in health care costs starting in January. By cutting $40 a month from three different budget categories, we’ll have reallocated $120 a month, more than enough to cover the increase in health care cost. Money Tips'

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Stock Market Sectors: 11 Official GICS Groups

Savings Corner

The other encompasses healthcare equipment and services, including surgical supplies, medical diagnostic tools , and health insurance. Telemedicine is a particularly interesting part of the healthcare sector that falls into the latter category. calls on Coca-Cola. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Medi-Share Update: One Year Later

Family Balance Sheet

Health insurance is a struggle for many people, and for us it became a big source of anxiety at the end of 2015 when our insurance company went out of business. We scrambled to research new plans, but after 11 years with the same company we were out of the loop regarding the insurance landscape at that time.

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Our 2018 Financial Goals

Family Balance Sheet

I have started calling around for fees and hope to have this complete by end of January. I won’t rehash our health insurance story here, because I have written extensively about it and INCLUDED OUR NUMBERS. Read our Health Insurance Story: . What We Left Traditional Health Insurance.

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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.