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The health insurance exchange makes it easy to find affordable high quality coverage available in your home state.
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Professional enrollment support is available for all of the benefit plans listed on this page. Send your question by e-mail or live online chat.


 

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Alabama Affordable Health Insurance Exchange

Alabama has 35 commercial health insurance companies that issue individual coverage and 7 companies that issue small group insurance as well as the state-sponsored health plans for low income or disabled residents. These policies are not available to all who need coverage and this insurance may be more expensive than some residents can afford. This Web page lists the most popular low cost commercial health insurance plans and some related benefits. All of these policies offer secure online enrollment and professional OnlineAdviser personal enrollment support. Please note that while many of these choices could be included in more than one of the suggested usage categories, each plan is listed only once for the sake of brevity. Your enrollment adviser is available to discuss suitability of any plan for your specific situation.

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Alabama insurance & benefit news

Alabama had the 5th lowest health insurance costs of all states in 2008. (The average annual premium for a U.S. family covered under an employer-sponsored health plan in 2008 was $12,298 according to The Commonwealth Fund report. The overall quality of health care ranked 40th out of the 51 states (including DC).
Alabama regulates the benefits required for both individual major medical and group health insurance plans, known as "mandated benefits".

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Alabama Insurance Law

The Alabama Department of Insurance Web site contains help sections for each type of insurance including a section on financially assisted health plans and Medicaid.  The Alabama high risk health insurance plan is open only to applicants who are "HIPAA eligible"; most uninsured individuals do not meet these requirements.
The state insurance department can be reached by telephone at 334-269-3550 or by mail at P O Box 303351 Montgomery, AL 36130-3351. The state children's health insurance plan (CHIP) Web site is Alabama ALL Kids.

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Consumer Insurance Issues

5/10/2010 Diabetes Coverage: A new resource to help find health insurance for diabetics in Alabama is now available at Freedom Benefits.

3/23/2010 Alabama and ten other states including Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington will make a joint legal challenge to the federal health reform bill on the basis that it improperly usurps state sovereignty over health insurance and that requiring health insurance is an illegal and improper government action.


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