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Viable Options

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Individuals who are suffering and living with serious pre-existing conditions, there are a few viable options in the realm of affordable health insurance. Of course, like with everything else in life there are always issues to consider. One of the more important issues is for you to decide what you are able to afford before you begin your search for an affordable health insurance policy.

There are a few choices that are out there for individuals who suffer and live with pre-existing conditions, but it depends on where you are at the moment that will decide what your options are.  This is really an unfortunate area that has been basically ignored by the health insurance providers and the medical health care community.

It is very difficult when you are aware the treatments, prescription medications, and medical health care help is at your fingertips. Yet, because you are unable to afford the additional costs for one reason or another, you fall back into the shadows. How sad when there are so many different health insurance providers and medical health care physicians close by, you fall through the cracks of society.

You are making too much money to receive any assistance from the state where you reside, yet you are not making enough money to be passed the basic necessities like food, rent, transportation, and utilities. Sadly, you are not alone, because there are thousands of other individuals in the same predicament as you.

Those individuals who do have some monetary funds there are a couple of viable options to research for health insurance coverage, but it will be a very expensive adventure. One of the viable solutions is a health savings account or HSA, which is mostly a type of health insurance that you keep in reserve for those times when you require hospitalization.

However, you could also try to set up a savings account along with your checking account and save up money towards your health care requirements without turning to the health savings account. All you would be doing is trying to put a set amount of money aside so that when you find it necessary you will have it to help defray some of the medical health care costs.

The other viable option for those individuals with pre-existing conditions is the high-risk pool, but again you must have the money before you can even enroll. This also applies to those individuals who have very rare diseases and rare pre-existing conditions of which there is no medical health care physician that truly understand what you have.

This is a health insurance plan that is very expensive because you will carry a very high deductible in order to pay the average monthly cost for health insurance. Okay, so what good is it to say you have a health insurance policy when you must continue to live as if you have no health insurance because of the high deductible?

This is almost equal to a catch twenty-two situation because now you finally have the option of medical health insurance coverage. However, because of the high deductible that you already know you are unable to afford it is the same, as having no health insurance coverage except you now must pay the average monthly cost for health insurance. How does this help you?