Category Archives: Individual Insurance

Deductibles | Co-Pays | Out of Pocket Maximums

By on December 14 2010 | Health Insurance | Leave a comment

Most people look at health insurance first by the deductible on the plan. For example, my plan has a $1,000 deductible. But what does this really mean and is there more to this? In short this is a good starting place for a PPO or even a new HSA type plan, but there is a […]

Life Insurance Reality Check

By on November 1 2010 | Life Insurance | Leave a comment

Insurance Fundamentals 101 September was life insurance awareness month, so if you haven’t already, you should do a check up on your life and disability/long term care insurance.  Just think of it like doing standard maintains on your car. See the worksheet on page 5 of this 8 page pdf, “What You Need to Know About […]

No Health Insurance At Work? What Can You Do?

By on September 24 2010 | | Leave a comment

I will talk about the options in what is called the individual market for Health Insurance vs. the Group Market (Company provided health insurance) I will also put up a copy of a short video that is part of a nice series of videos sponsored by Humana, one of the country’s largest health insurance companies […]

Disability Insurance Awareness Month

By on June 14 2010 | Disability Insurance | Leave a comment

May is (was) Disability Insurance Awareness Month (DIAM), the perfect time for disability insurance “reality check.” Take this opportunity to make sure you’d be OK financially in the event that a disability keeps you out of work for an extended period of time. Social Security Disability Insurance benefits are available for the US Government, but […]

Health Insurance In Texas

By on May 25 2010 | | Leave a comment

Revised Health Insurance for Texas web site was made “live” today.  Welcome to TexasFamilyBenefits.com web site “3.0”. This is the 3rd major design change in the life of TexasFamilyBenefits.com, the website, which started in July of 2007. This is the first Blog post I am making as we put the site up “LIVE” in this […]

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