Reducing My Health Insurance Costs

It’s that time of year again. When the health insurance company sends me a letter telling me what my new premium will be. This year, my plan resulted in a $50 increase. Because costs keep rising. (Or the CEO of the company is finding his hundreds of million dollars in compensation is inadequate.)
At any rate, last year I received a rather long justification of rising rates — even for those of us who live healthy lifestyles and rarely use our insurance. This year’s justification was rather short, and included, once again the fact that, even though I have an individual …read more