Health Insurance in Connecticut


Connecticut residents are looking for worthy health insurance plans that offer significant financial protection at a cost they can afford. Below is useful information.


There is a wide choice of quality health insurance plans for individuals and families from most of the leading health insurance companies in Connecticut like Aetna, United Health One, Cigna, and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, including Tonik health plans for individuals. The premiums for private medical insurance policies are all standardized and filed with the Connecticut Insurance Department. This means all agencies must quote the same rates. It is suggested that private insurance holders review their policy rate every 18 months.


Connecticut also provides a high risk pool plan for the individuals and families without health insurance in Connecticut, through the Connecticut Health Reinsurance Association (HRA).


Health Insurance for Connecticut Groups and Small Businesses (2-50 employees); Medical underwriting is authorized in Connecticut. Charges are based on the community rate including age, gender, location, industry, group size, and family composition.


Connecticut offers COBRA, the Consolidate Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. Many companies with 20 or more employees that provide health insurance are obligated to offer employees and their dependents continuation coverage for remuneration that were lost owing, for instance, to job loss, decrease in hours worked, death, or divorce.


Medicaid in Connecticut is a state/federal program that pays for medical and long-term care services for low-income pregnant women, children, certain people on Medicare, disabled persons and nursing home residents.


The Husky Plan is intended to assist all children who don’t have health insurance.


Others include; short term health insurance, student health insurance, and dental insurance


Companies for Health Insurance in Connecticut


Do you pay too much for family health insurance?

Maybe it's time to Check Connecticut Health Insurance Quotes.



Hospitals in Connecticut


Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport; Danbury Hospital in Danbury; Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich; Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk; St. Vincent Hospital - Bridgeport; Stamford Hospital in Stamford; Bristol Hospital in Bristol; Connecticut Children's Medical Centre, St. Francis Hospital, and Hartford Hospital in Hartford; Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain, and Southington; John Dempsey in Farmington; Manchester Hospital in Manchester; Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington; New Milford Hospital in New Milford; Sharon Hospital in Sharon; Middlesex Hospital in Essex, Marlborough, and Middletown; Griffin Hospital in Derby; Mid-state Hospital in Meriden; Milford Hospital in Milford; St. Mary's Hospital, and Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury; St. Raphael's Hospital in New Haven; Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven; Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London; William Backus Hospital in Norwich; Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs; Rockville Hospital in Vernon; Windham Hospital in Willimantic; Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam.

Individual or Family Health Insurance Options

March 12th, 2009

As more and more individuals working at home with or without families find themselves without some kind of group health insurance. Sometimes even working at a job, no health insurance is even offered.

Thousands of hard-working people in every state are making dangerous choices: No health insurance at all! They believe they are too young or too healthy. They believe they 'save a little or a lot of money' and can do without.

Consider your friends, family and neighbors ' people who may have been sick or injured. The fact is, even healthy people may end up with a serious medical condition that can be extremely costly to treat.

Now you can consider how much of a terrible ordeal would be without some kind of quality health insurance to pay for thousands of dollars in doctor fees or hospital bills!

When you really think of it and ask yourself this question ' 'Can I afford health insurance?' and more importantly: 'Can I afford to be without it?'

You have to determine whether you are young if I really need the insurance. There are other types of insurance that gives you a discount on all your doctor and hospital bills.

Health insurance is not cheap but if you are over 35 years old, you probably should rethink whether you need individual or family health insurance coverage or is the discounted health insurance really right for you. One illness can put you in debt.

If you are an individual you might pay $400 getting the insurance privately but if you have a family you may pay $700+ each month just for an HMO. Can you afford that? Otherwise try and consider getting a job that pays for some of the insurance even if the salary is slightly less.

Insurance rates have gone sky high and it looks like there is no end to it. Just one incident can devastate your whole life savings.

If you are a single parent with a child, you will wind up paying the family rate which is unfair. If you are a college student, check with a college to see what their health insurance may cover. Otherwise, there are insurance companies that offer health insurance for college students.

This is not legal advice or any type of advice for you to get insurance or not. You need to research whether or not you can afford to be with or without the insurance.

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About the author: Fern Kuhn, RN I had to get individual health insurance myself and have done much research in this area

Author: Fern Kuhn, RN
Health Insurance in Connecticut