Course 1 (4-6 Credit Hours)
Health Insurance Financial Planning: Introduction to Individual Policies and Health Savings Accounts
by Professor Paul Zane Pilzer
Course Description
Advise your clients to protect themselves against a financial disaster if they or a member of their family becomes ill, by helping them obtain permanent affordable Individual/Family Health Insurance.
Health Insurance Financial Planning: Introduction to Individual Policies and Health Savings Accounts gives you as a licensed agent, an introduction on how to advise your clients to protect themselves against financial disaster if they or a member of their family become ill.
Health Insurance Financial Planning: Introduction to Individual Policies and Health Savings Accounts teaches you the history of health insurance in the U.S., the recent transition from group (employer) plans to individual/family plans (funded by employers), and a summary of the new solutions available to help your clients obtain affordable, permanent, and portable health insurance.
You will learn
- How to explain individual/family health insurance to your clients, and help them analyze why it may be a better deal than group employer-sponsored plans for their families.
- How the application process works, and learn the role you (the agent) should play in advising your clients before they submit an application.
- How to advise clients with preexisting medical conditions about new state-guaranteed coverage that is now available in all 50 states for people who lose their employer-sponsored health insurance
- How to advise your clients on Medicaid, Medicare, and other forms of income-assisted coverage.
- You will learn how to advise clients about the new Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), why every American should have one, and why no one should put an additional dollar into an IRA or 401k before they have fully-funded their HSA.