If a site you've clicked on to find information about health insurance asks you how you are going to pay for it or takes you to another page where you can verify your identity by providing your credit card information, quickly click away and move onto the next site.  There are hundreds of sites where you can freely, and anonymously, obtain what you are looking for.  The very earliest time that you should consider providing any of this information is after you have made your selection and are completing an application to make the purchase and, even then, some insurance companies do not require this.  Anthem Blue Cross in Ohio, for instance, will let you submit an online application without having to provide any payment information at all.  Be careful when browsing the internet and never provide payment information when you are simply shopping for health insurance.

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Ronald Haines
ronald@hcibenefits.com
www.hcibenefits.com