MEGA Life And Health - NASE - HealthMarkets Deceptive sales pitch selling what appears to be legitimate "health care coverage" under the guise of group ratings via NASE North Richland Hills Texas

These types of plans are ripoffs. They aren't health insurance.

They have caps on the important parts of coverage you need. The cancer coverage is awful and they mis-represent what it really is. Look at the cap on surgical expenses.... its like 5k bucks? What a joke.. Imagine if you needed heart surgery?

Mega Life, United America are not real health insurance.

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The guys help land me a Blue Cross policy that was really affordable and covered everything when my wife got diagnosed with cancer.

Smart - you have it right!! An HSA is absolutely the right way to go, but you may want to consider going with an individual HSA rather than the COBRA plan. You can get a rate that is based on a larger population than the company you used to be with.

Mega is an absolute rip-off, and though they have HSA's none of their agents are intelligent enough to sell them, and their managers discourange it as well. The problem is that they cannot compete when they pay commissions to an agent, a district manager, a division manager, and a regional manager. The average RM is making 1 - 3 million dollars a year in income. How can they be competitive with the other companies, where the agent can be direct to the company?

Back to your situation, I work nationwide as an agent with all of the major carriers and can make some suggestions.

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Smokin - To quell your concerns, I won't likely by needing the COBRA coverage for the full 18 months anyway, so it's not a problem when it ends.

Also, it has been interesting shopping around for prescription medication using the HDHP. I'm keeping a spreadsheet of all our medication along with 7 different sources (CVS, Walgreen's, Costco, Target, etc.) and I'm giving my business to the store that has the lowest price.

An example would be the generic for Flonase (nasal allergy spray). Six of the seven are $59.99 or more for 30-day supply, with one at $86.00. The winner? Costco for $21.73. If everyone that used this drug was aware of the price differences and used the lowest priced supplier, I'm thinking that the other six would get a clue and try to compete better.

Too bad more Americans aren't on board with using free market forces to help bring down healthcare costs. I was one of the ones that accepted the $10/$25/$40 co-pay method and standard insurance plan's "management of care" at face value and never questioned them, but no more! I'm looking for cash discounts!

Finally, just so everyone knows, the $961.22 premium (after tax, of course) is not much higher than the $800 premium I was paying before tax while employed with the COBRA provider (former employer)! Now, since it's coming out after taxes, I can deduct every single dollar of it on my taxes, along with every single dollar that I put into the HSA account (up to $5,800 for 2008).

PS - It's HIPAA (two As)...

Smokin - To quell your concerns, I won't likely by needing the COBRA coverage for the full 18 months anyway, so it's not a problem when it ends.

Also, it has been interesting shopping around for prescription medication using the HDHP. I'm keeping a spreadsheet of all our medication along with 7 different sources (CVS, Walgreen's, Costco, Target, etc.) and I'm giving my business to the store that has the lowest price.

An example would be the generic for Flonase (nasal allergy spray). Six of the seven are $59.99 or more for 30-day supply, with one at $86.00. The winner? Costco for $21.73. If everyone that used this drug was aware of the price differences and used the lowest priced supplier, I'm thinking that the other six would get a clue and try to compete better.

Too bad more Americans aren't on board with using free market forces to help bring down healthcare costs. I was one of the ones that accepted the $10/$25/$40 co-pay method and standard insurance plan's "management of care" at face value and never questioned them, but no more! I'm looking for cash discounts!

Finally, just so everyone knows, the $961.22 premium (after tax, of course) is not much higher than the $800 premium I was paying before tax while employed with the COBRA provider (former employer)! Now, since it's coming out after taxes, I can deduct every single dollar of it on my taxes, along with every single dollar that I put into the HSA account (up to $5,800 for 2008).

PS - It's HIPAA (two As)...

Smokin - To quell your concerns, I won't likely by needing the COBRA coverage for the full 18 months anyway, so it's not a problem when it ends.

Also, it has been interesting shopping around for prescription medication using the HDHP. I'm keeping a spreadsheet of all our medication along with 7 different sources (CVS, Walgreen's, Costco, Target, etc.) and I'm giving my business to the store that has the lowest price.

An example would be the generic for Flonase (nasal allergy spray). Six of the seven are $59.99 or more for 30-day supply, with one at $86.00. The winner? Costco for $21.73. If everyone that used this drug was aware of the price differences and used the lowest priced supplier, I'm thinking that the other six would get a clue and try to compete better.

Too bad more Americans aren't on board with using free market forces to help bring down healthcare costs. I was one of the ones that accepted the $10/$25/$40 co-pay method and standard insurance plan's "management of care" at face value and never questioned them, but no more! I'm looking for cash discounts!

Finally, just so everyone knows, the $961.22 premium (after tax, of course) is not much higher than the $800 premium I was paying before tax while employed with the COBRA provider (former employer)! Now, since it's coming out after taxes, I can deduct every single dollar of it on my taxes, along with every single dollar that I put into the HSA account (up to $5,800 for 2008).

PS - It's HIPAA (two As)...

Smokin - To quell your concerns, I won't likely by needing the COBRA coverage for the full 18 months anyway, so it's not a problem when it ends.

Also, it has been interesting shopping around for prescription medication using the HDHP. I'm keeping a spreadsheet of all our medication along with 7 different sources (CVS, Walgreen's, Costco, Target, etc.) and I'm giving my business to the store that has the lowest price.

An example would be the generic for Flonase (nasal allergy spray). Six of the seven are $59.99 or more for 30-day supply, with one at $86.00. The winner? Costco for $21.73. If everyone that used this drug was aware of the price differences and used the lowest priced supplier, I'm thinking that the other six would get a clue and try to compete better.

Too bad more Americans aren't on board with using free market forces to help bring down healthcare costs. I was one of the ones that accepted the $10/$25/$40 co-pay method and standard insurance plan's "management of care" at face value and never questioned them, but no more! I'm looking for cash discounts!

Finally, just so everyone knows, the $961.22 premium (after tax, of course) is not much higher than the $800 premium I was paying before tax while employed with the COBRA provider (former employer)! Now, since it's coming out after taxes, I can deduct every single dollar of it on my taxes, along with every single dollar that I put into the HSA account (up to $5,800 for 2008).

PS - It's HIPAA (two As)...

In the great state of TEXAS COBRA WILL end after 18 months of continued uninterrupted premiums. You must run the full 18 months to be HIPA eligible.
HIPA only protects you for the TEXAS state risk pool. TEXAS is not a guarantied
issued state. You must go through underwriting for any real insurance company.
All insurance companies have unfavorable remarks about them. But Cobra does run out and the customer is found to be non insurable and declined by everyone.
TEXAS risk pool is all you have. Or you could move to a state that will issue without
underwriting with rate ups and preexisting condition clauses. Americans are the most educated people in the world and understand unhappy ex employees
or competitors that come to site such as this to create doubt. They think its helping their sales. The hard truth is not everyone is approved. And when a client
cant make a decision to see if they even qualify for a plan. When they call to cancel you would think a person with $900 dollar premiums would have already known that they are going to be declined. Buy the way if I were to cancel a policy
i would do it in writing just to make sure that i didn't recieve coverage by mistake(you know the real legal way instead of phone) please re post how things turnout when COBRA ENDS.

In the great state of TEXAS COBRA WILL end after 18 months of continued uninterrupted premiums. You must run the full 18 months to be HIPA eligible.
HIPA only protects you for the TEXAS state risk pool. TEXAS is not a guarantied
issued state. You must go through underwriting for any real insurance company.
All insurance companies have unfavorable remarks about them. But Cobra does run out and the customer is found to be non insurable and declined by everyone.
TEXAS risk pool is all you have. Or you could move to a state that will issue without
underwriting with rate ups and preexisting condition clauses. Americans are the most educated people in the world and understand unhappy ex employees
or competitors that come to site such as this to create doubt. They think its helping their sales. The hard truth is not everyone is approved. And when a client
cant make a decision to see if they even qualify for a plan. When they call to cancel you would think a person with $900 dollar premiums would have already known that they are going to be declined. Buy the way if I were to cancel a policy
i would do it in writing just to make sure that i didn't recieve coverage by mistake(you know the real legal way instead of phone) please re post how things turnout when COBRA ENDS.

In the great state of TEXAS COBRA WILL end after 18 months of continued uninterrupted premiums. You must run the full 18 months to be HIPA eligible.
HIPA only protects you for the TEXAS state risk pool. TEXAS is not a guarantied
issued state. You must go through underwriting for any real insurance company.
All insurance companies have unfavorable remarks about them. But Cobra does run out and the customer is found to be non insurable and declined by everyone.
TEXAS risk pool is all you have. Or you could move to a state that will issue without
underwriting with rate ups and preexisting condition clauses. Americans are the most educated people in the world and understand unhappy ex employees
or competitors that come to site such as this to create doubt. They think its helping their sales. The hard truth is not everyone is approved. And when a client
cant make a decision to see if they even qualify for a plan. When they call to cancel you would think a person with $900 dollar premiums would have already known that they are going to be declined. Buy the way if I were to cancel a policy
i would do it in writing just to make sure that i didn't recieve coverage by mistake(you know the real legal way instead of phone) please re post how things turnout when COBRA ENDS.