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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Open Enrollment Health Insurance

By Bart Icles

The escalating prices of medical expenses year by year makes it a necessity for everybody to have health insurance. Whichever health insurance provider that you would be choosing, you need to make sure that the health insurance plan that you will be choosing will be able to suit your lifestyle.

Health insurance costs vary a lot depending on your lifestyle and your overall health. How healthy and how risk-free your life style is usually determines how much you will be paying for a health insurance coverage. Usually, the more health and the less risk free your lifestyle is, the lesser it is that you will be paying for a health insurance coverage while the less healthier and the more risk-free your lifestyle is as compared to the majority, the higher it is that you will be paying for a health insurance coverage.

What is an open enrollment health insurance? A lot of people have heard about this at one point or another but do not really have any idea what it entails.

In the United States and other countries, health insurances are designed to be able to cover incidents that would require medical expenses in the future. Most of the health insurance coverages normally do not include pre-existing medical conditions, a high-risk lifestyle, and an occurring illness. To be able to help those people who belong to these brackets, the United States federal law made a clause to make health insurance available to them. This is what they call open enrollment health insurance.

Open enrollment health insurance is more or less the option that people who cannot qualify for a standard health insurance avails of. They are not qualified for other types of insurance which can more or less be because of three reasons, namely: (1) health history of self and family or pre-existing medical conditions, (2) a high-risk lifestyle, and (3) an occurring illness. This type of insurance can normally be availed of from non-profit health organizations. As mandated by law, anybody who will be applying for an open enrolment health insurance should not be declined.

Because of the risks involved in getting an individual insured under an open enrolment health insurance, it is very expensive. There aren't really lots of options for people who belong to the three brackets mentioned in the preceding paragraph since they will only be able to avail of health insurances like this. The best thing that people who belong to these brackets can do is to make sure that they go to a health insurance company who will be able to give them the best plan at the least possible cost. To be able to do that, a little bit of research is necessary.

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