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15 Responses to “Everything You Need To Know About Comparing Insurance Quotes”
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You need a trusted adviser to help you through the process of purchasing health insurance so that you understand what you are purchasing. Ultimately, you are the one who determines the affordability of your health insurance plan by deciding how much you will participate in sharing the cost of your health care with your insurance company. You decide what the right balance is between affordability and policy benefits.
If you choose a plan that covers everything i.e. doctors office visits, prescription drugs, preventative health benefits, maternity coverage as well as low deductibles, low co-pays and optional vision and dental benefits your monthly premiums will be significant.
On the other hand if you are young, healthy and don't often use the health care system you could consider a plan that covers only the major health catastrophe. If that is too scary consider a plan with a higher in hospital deductible, higher co-pays for doctor's office visits and perhaps not cover prescription drugs.. Either of these approaches will result in a lower monthly premium. You then can use the monthly premium savings to pay for the occasional doctor visit or prescription and still come out ahead.
Check with the agent that writes your home or auto insurance he/she can provide you a health insurance proposal that takes into account your budget and health status. They can answer questions as to what is and is not covered by the policy, explain deductibles and co-pays and show you the hospitals and doctors that participate in the network.
Some are going to suggest you go to their web site so that they earn a few pennies on a "click through". Some may suggest going on line to get a quote but you probably already know that there is much more to health insurance than price. Some might even "pitch" a discount plan that is not insurance at all. Use the Internet to educate yourself but use an agent to purchase the coverage.
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Well…a decent insurance agent should be able to tell you the average replacement cost in your area based upon a price per square foot value. Some companies will even have tools to input data about your home and come up with an estimated replacement cost…although these figures can tend to be out of date. If you want a true cost replacement value, you pretty much have to shell out around $300 for an appraisal or hire a contractor to give you an estimate.
But if your home is of average quality for your community, the figure your agent provides should be pretty good. For example, in my area the average replacement cost is around $175-$200 per square foot. So if you have an average house that is 1500 sq feet, you would probably be looking at $300,000 in coverage. The cost per square foot estimate came directly from our Total Loss Adjusters…their entire job is rebuilding people's burnt down houses. Now, if you have marble countertops and hardwood floors throughout, we'd want to raise that figure accordingly, to maybe $225-$250 per square foot.
Ask a local agent for their input…if they are worth a darn they should have an average estimate for you. If you want a figure based upon your exact house…pay for an appraisal.
EDIT:
Ignore the person who asked for your purchase price. Purchase price has absolutely no bearing on the replacement cost. Replacement cost is what it would cost to rebuild the house from scratch if it burned to the ground. Purchase price is influenced by many factors that don't impact replacement cost (market conditions, size of the lot, if it's in a desirable neighborhood or not, etc).
When comparing a medical insurance policy against another there are several things you should do. You want to make sure that the company has a limited number of consumer complaints, is likely to be financially able to pay future claims and you want to make make certain that the particular policy you choose covers benefits [...]
April 21st, 2010 at 8:41 pm
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You need a trusted adviser to help you through the process of purchasing health insurance so that you understand what you are purchasing. Ultimately, you are the one who determines the affordability of your health insurance plan by deciding how much you will participate in sharing the cost of your health care with your insurance company. You decide what the right balance is between affordability and policy benefits.
If you choose a plan that covers everything i.e. doctors office visits, prescription drugs, preventative health benefits, maternity coverage as well as low deductibles, low co-pays and optional vision and dental benefits your monthly premiums will be significant.
On the other hand if you are young, healthy and don't often use the health care system you could consider a plan that covers only the major health catastrophe. If that is too scary consider a plan with a higher in hospital deductible, higher co-pays for doctor's office visits and perhaps not cover prescription drugs.. Either of these approaches will result in a lower monthly premium. You then can use the monthly premium savings to pay for the occasional doctor visit or prescription and still come out ahead.
Check with the agent that writes your home or auto insurance he/she can provide you a health insurance proposal that takes into account your budget and health status. They can answer questions as to what is and is not covered by the policy, explain deductibles and co-pays and show you the hospitals and doctors that participate in the network.
Some are going to suggest you go to their web site so that they earn a few pennies on a "click through". Some may suggest going on line to get a quote but you probably already know that there is much more to health insurance than price. Some might even "pitch" a discount plan that is not insurance at all. Use the Internet to educate yourself but use an agent to purchase the coverage.
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Well…a decent insurance agent should be able to tell you the average replacement cost in your area based upon a price per square foot value. Some companies will even have tools to input data about your home and come up with an estimated replacement cost…although these figures can tend to be out of date. If you want a true cost replacement value, you pretty much have to shell out around $300 for an appraisal or hire a contractor to give you an estimate.
But if your home is of average quality for your community, the figure your agent provides should be pretty good. For example, in my area the average replacement cost is around $175-$200 per square foot. So if you have an average house that is 1500 sq feet, you would probably be looking at $300,000 in coverage. The cost per square foot estimate came directly from our Total Loss Adjusters…their entire job is rebuilding people's burnt down houses. Now, if you have marble countertops and hardwood floors throughout, we'd want to raise that figure accordingly, to maybe $225-$250 per square foot.
Ask a local agent for their input…if they are worth a darn they should have an average estimate for you. If you want a figure based upon your exact house…pay for an appraisal.
EDIT:
Ignore the person who asked for your purchase price. Purchase price has absolutely no bearing on the replacement cost. Replacement cost is what it would cost to rebuild the house from scratch if it burned to the ground. Purchase price is influenced by many factors that don't impact replacement cost (market conditions, size of the lot, if it's in a desirable neighborhood or not, etc).
July 5th, 2011 at 3:57 am
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August 10th, 2011 at 10:00 am
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