It has been said that nothing is more important than your health, and there is a lot of truth to that saying. Among other things, a loss of health can mean a loss of earnings if you are not able to work, and it can also mean medical bills that are extremely expensive. Health insurance can help you avoid some of those costs and it can also help individuals to lead more healthy lives by paying for preventive measures such as regular check ups and immunizations to name just two.
There are several means by which an individual can get health insurance. A person may pay for his or her own insurance. A person may receive health insurance as part of an employment package. A person may receive health insurance through local or Federal programs.
In many instances, there can be a combining of the premiums paid. What that means is that, for example, an employer might pay a certain amount of the medical insurance premium and the employee pays the remainder of the premium, usually through payroll deduction. In other cases, an employer or government entity may pay the full amount of the premium.
As with all types of insurance, health insurance comes in many forms and is...