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- About Disability Insurance - Offers articles and defines terms used within various disability policies.
- AHRQ - Choosing and Using a Health Plan - Information on the kinds of health insurance, benefits, and how to choose the right plan.
- AHRQ: Checkup on Health Insurance Choices - Describes health insurance types, choices, and terms, from a consumer perspective. By the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services.
- AHRQ: Children's Health 1996 - Study by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It offers statistics, conclusions, and looking ahead at children's healthcare.
- Better Homes & Gardens: Health Insurance - Offers several articles about health insurance from a family perspective.
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - US federal agency which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Provides information for health professionals, regional governments, and consumers.
- COBRAcompare.com - Describes COBRA benefits, with health insurance information and a glossary of terms. Sponsored by WellPoint, Inc.
- Cobrahealth.com - A compendium of articles on COBRA coverage, with a message board.
- Consumer Driven Healthcare - Describing defined contribution health plans.
- EHealthHelp - Guide to how medicare and health insurance plans work, with claim and enrollment tips.
- Families USA - Nonprofit advocacy organization offers resources on finding, choosing, and using health coverage.
- Health Insurance - Wikipedia - Encyclopedia article including topics such as history, privately and publicly funding schemes, and specific sections on the USA and Canada.
- Health Insurance In-Depth - Describing policy types, coverage, and regulation of personal and group plans.
- Health Insurance Resource Center - Resources for the self-employed to understand their health insurance. Includes glossary of industry terms, tips, FAQs on individual health insurance, and risk pool information.
- Health Insurance Resource Center - Provides information on types of health insurance plans and state health insurance laws and regulations.
- Health Plans & Benefits - The US Department of Labor portal for health plans and benefits. Includes fact sheets, regulations, and ERISA information.
- Health Symphony - Brief articles and links relating to health insurance.
- HealthCareCoach.com - [USA] Project of the National Health Law Program to improve access to quality health care, educate consumers about their legal rights, and provide information and policy advocacy.
- healthinsuranceinfo.net - A consumer guide for obtaining and keeping health insurance, from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, providing information for each state and the District of Columbia. Site also includes a newsletter and consumer alerts concerning troubled health insurers.
- HIV and Insurance: Some Questions and Answers - Some Questions and Answers, by Mark Scherzer, Esq., at The Body, an AIDS and HIV information resource.
- How I Fought My HMO and Won Without a Lawyer - A personal chronicle of a 16 month battle with an HMO to get them to pay medical claims. Also includes information for people about to or currently fighting their HMO.
- How to Choose Health Care Coverage - Brief explanations of different kinds of health insurance, produced by the Hope Heart Institute.
- Medicare: The Official U.S. Government Site - Information on Medicare, including comparisons of medicare and medigap plans.
- MedlinePlus - Provided by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health to answer consumer health questions and provide access to medical journal and news articles.
- My Health Choices - Provides information for consumers to help them make personal decisions about their health care and insurance coverage. Sponsored by Doctors Medical Centers in California, USA.
- New York Health Insurance Information, Counseling, and Assistance Program (HIICAP) - Consumer help with Medicare, managed care, Medigap insurance, long term care insurance; written for New Yorkers, but contains information of general interest. From the New York, USA, Office for the Aging.
- Revolution Health : Insurance - Provides insurance tools for comparing and finding new insurance or getting the most out of the insurance you already have.
- Senior Health Insurance Counseling - Information on Medicare and related programs including Medigap, HMOs, Medicaid, and long term care.
- U.S. Census Bureau Health Insurance Data - Data on status and type of coverage by age, sex, gender, race, state, as well as other characteristics. Site offers data review tools to create and extract custom data tables.
- Women and Job Based Health Benefits - Claims, workers rights, and health benefits as they relate to women. From the US Department of Labor.
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