Thursday, March 24, 2011

Group Health Insurance Plans Explained

By Matheson Thumgard


If you live in a country that has great health care that is provided by your government, you are very lucky. Others must pay for their own care, often at very high costs that are nearly impossible to afford without insurance coverage. In these countries, the best way to get insurance is to join group health plans, but how do you join one and what does it cover?

This kind of insurance is meant to cover several or many people. It is provided by employers to their employees who qualify for the coverage. In order to qualify for coverage under your employer, you must work a certain number of minimum hours.

Not all plans are created equally. They will all cover different things and different group medical plans will require you to pay different amounts into them. You will have to check with your employer to find out what your insurance covers and how much you contribute to it.

There are employers and companies who give their employees plans that they do not have to pay for. In other words, the corporation is fully responsible for paying for the insurance coverage. However, medical costs that are not covered by the insurance are to be paid by the employee.

When a person buy his or her own health coverage, the health insurance company can turn them down for any reasons they see fit, like if the person had an illness in the past. However, this is not the case with group insurance plans.

Although you cannot be denied access to a group plan provided by an employer if you qualify, you can be denied coverage for certain illnesses. It is standard practice for health insurance companies to look through your medical history up to a certain point. If there is an illness there that they do not want to cover, they do not have to cover it.




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