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The GoHealth Insurance Buyer's Guide
Before you’re ready to purchase a health plan, you’ll ask yourself questions such as: Which plan should I choose? What are the differences between each plan? How do I find affordable coverage?
In this Health Insurance Buyer’s Guide, we want to give you the resources and the tools to obtain the right health insurance for your needs.
The Guide is designed to help you navigate through the much-unknown world of buying individual health insurance and emerge with a fundamental understanding of how insurance coverage works.
Go Health Insurance Shopping Study
An Insurance Exchange is an online marketplace for individual health insurance which integrates Web-based plan comparison tools, online applications for coverage and guidance from experienced professional agents.
The “Insurance Exchange Effect” shows that in the final purchase stage, consumers choose health plans with lower average premiums and lower average deductibles than in the research and shopping stages.
Go Health Insurance Guide to Health Reform
Individuals and families who already have health insurance can keep their coverage or purchase a new plan from a state insurance exchange in 2014.
Also in 2014, most Americans will be required to have health insurance coverage or pay a penalty.
Individuals earning more than $200,000 per year and families earning more than $250,000 will pay higher Medicare payroll taxes.