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Small
Business Health Insurance & Dental Coverage Plans Finding health insurance can be difficult, especially
when you are a small business or self-employed. Below
we've listed some helpful resources.
eHealthInsurance
- free instant health insurance quotes for individuals
and small businesses. 
Aetna Dental Access®
-
dental discount program.
Health Savings Accounts (HSA's)
In 2004, Congress passed a law that created the Health
Savings Account (HSA).
An HSA is simply a high-deductible health plan (HDHP)
coupled with a savings account. This means that you
can buy high-deductible health insurance (the deductible
is a minimum of $2,500/year) to cover your catastrophic
expenses, while you can save money in a separate bank
account tax-free to pay for your usual medical
bills.
For example, if you purchase health insurance that
covers you from $3,000 to $3 Million in expenses, you
will have to pay for everything under $3,000 out of
pocket from your HSA. If you have more than $3,000 in
medical expenses, your insurance will kick-in and cover
the rest, but if you have fewer than $3,000 in expenses,
all of that money remains in your HSA tax free. You
can even invest that money.
Visit the following links
to learn more:
eHealthInsurance
- provides the high-deductible health insurance portion
of an HSA.
HSABank.com
- provides the "savings account" portion of
HSA's.
Questions
and Answers about HSA's - from the IRS
NOTE: you don't have to buy a special kind of insurance
for an HSA, it simply has to be a high-deductible policy
that fits the HSA guidelines.
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