Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Finding your insurance choices at healthcare.gov

As a part of the changes mandated by the new health insurance reform bill, healthcare.gov launched today. The healthcare.gov site is a search engine and advice website that focuses on health insurance choices of everybody in the country. The site will help individuals save money, but even more so in the next few years.

Source for this article: Healthcare.gov launches insurance solution finder by Personal Money Store

The bill that created healthcare.gov

The health care site was part of the mandates in the new health care bill. The website is part information, half search engine. The bill mandated a health insurance search. The search engine is up and running, despite the fact that the government-supported health care possibilities won't be up and running until 2014.

The many insurance choices on healthcare.gov

The healthcare.gov user interface is intended for simple use. First of all, the site asks you questions to help make your possibilities more relevant. The website also helps answer questions about state health insurance exchanges, also as basic insurance questions. The new health care law is explained within the "understanding the new law" section. There is also information on the quality and outcomes at hospitals across the country. Basically, the healthcare.gov site is trying to be the first place to go for healthcare details or insurance info.

The ways healthcare.gov will end up helping

One of the biggest complaints of most health insurance customers has been the difficulty of “shopping around” for the best prices. The healthcare.gov website compiles the prices and details of insurance around the country. The website also asks for and welcomes feedback from everyone who makes use of the website. This way, the healthcare.gov site could be ready for prime-time when the new health care exchanges are created. The site will also help people conserve money, because they’ll reduce insurance costs from plans to prevention.



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