Health Insurance

Affordable health insurance: state guides

The writers and editors at the Health Insurance Resource Center put the pieces of the medical insurance puzzle together for you in our Health Insurance 101 section, as well as shifting through the best information from across the Internet throughout our pages:

Finding individual health insurance for your family can be confusing. We provide several tools to help you make better choices.

• Get no-obligation health insurance quotes to compare plans.
• Learn about short term insurance, temporary medical coverage to bridge gaps.
• Lost your job? Sick? Explore COBRA health insurance and high-risk insurance pools.
• Peruse Frequently Asked Questions about health care.
• Learn about private health insurance in America.
• Understand health insurance options for the self-employed.

What can you do to provide low-cost protection for your family's health? Here at the Health Insurance Resource Center, we strive to make you a better-informed consumer to aid you in your quest to secure and keep an adequate health plan for your family, regardless of your individual situation.

45,000 people a year die without health insurance plans

What can you do to help reduce the number of uninsured?.

A recent Harvard University study revealed that 45,000 adults in the United States die each year because of lack of health insurance plans.

Around 60.1 million Americans will be uninsured by 2020 if we do not adopt strong health care reform.

Urge Congress to pass health insurance reform – now.

The fact that millions lack access to quality, affordable health insurance is easily the biggest domestic crisis facing our nation. Our advocacy page gives you the tools to help convince Congress to support President Obama's call for health care reform. His goals are to ensure that health plans do not discriminate on the basis of pre-existing conditions, that Americans have access to high-quality, low-cost insurance, and that Americans won't need to fear the loss of coverage if they lose their job, switch jobs or become self-employed. Contact a member of the House of Representatives. Contact your U.S. Senator. Contact the White House

Healthinsurance.org has long taken pride in its reputation for promoting health insurance reform, and we are committed to building on that reputation as legislators move the nation closer to a reformed system.

State Guides to health plans and health care quality

You'll also find information on the quality of health care in individual states. Each guide also gives you the opportunity to receive free, no-obligation health insurance quotes, complete with health insurance rates and plan details from competing health insurance companies.

Many states are seeking ways to tackle the problem of access to affordable health insurance plans on their own, and we look to health care reform initiatives on our state pages. We also have links to the contact forms for your elected officials, so you can easily lend your support, or offer alternative ideas.