Open enrollment: picking a health plan without overpaying
Open enrollment dates, what to check in your current plan, updating your income, comparing total cost, avoiding look-alike plans, and free help.
Medicare when you turn 65: how to sign up
Your 7-month sign-up window, the parts of Medicare, Original vs Advantage, delaying Part B with job coverage, free help and avoiding sales traps.
Picking your work benefits: a plain guide
Your sign-up deadline, choosing a health plan, HSAs and FSAs, getting the 401(k) match, disability and life insurance, and beneficiaries.
Lost your job? Keeping health insurance: COBRA or the Marketplace
COBRA vs Marketplace plans, your 60-day deadlines, using your new income, a spouse’s plan and Medicaid, and choosing carefully.
Adding your new baby to health insurance
Your deadline to add a newborn, job plans vs Marketplace, Medicaid and CHIP, choosing a plan, and other things to update.
Turning 26: how to get your own health insurance
When a parent’s coverage ends, your 60-day sign-up window, your options, help with the cost, and the four words that matter.
How US healthcare works, for newcomers
Ways to get covered, community health centers, where to go for care, emergency rights, free interpreters, and avoiding surprise costs.