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Each story follows an example person through open enrollment, a life change, an accident, a serious illness or a trip abroad, and shows what they could do and what their plan paid. Questions about your own situation? Send us a message.
Example stories that work out the premium tax credit and cost-sharing reductions for 2027 coverage: income against the poverty guideline, what the household is expected to pay, and what the credit covers.
Tax credits: a family of three
Carlos and Jessica, in Garland, expect about $55,000, and their son qualifies for CHIP. How their 2027 tax credit is figured, why $360 over the 200% line matters, and what a $500 IRA contribution changes.
Read the storyTax credits: a single freelancer
Jordan edits videos for small brands from Henderson, on 1099 income. How a careful estimate of freelance income set her 2027 tax credit, why Silver came with cost-sharing reductions, and what a wrong estimate costs.
Read the storyTax credits: a parent and teen
Melissa runs the office at a Salt Lake City architecture firm and raises Ava, 14, on one paycheck. How the tax credit, the smallest cost-sharing reduction and Ava's coverage work out for 2027.
Read the storyExample stories about life changes that open a Special Enrollment Period, from leaving a job or turning 26 to a wedding, a new baby or a move. What opened the window, how long it lasted, and how the tax credit was worked out.
Special enrollment: a parent's death
Brian's former wife dies and their three children move in with him in Las Vegas. How he added them to his Nevada Health Link plan with no gap, and how a household of four changed his tax credit.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: becoming a citizen
A green card holder in Des Moines becomes a U.S. citizen and expects a window to change plans. He doesn't get one. What naturalizing changes, what it doesn't, and when a change in status does help.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: marriage
Priya has a HealthCare.gov plan, Andre has coverage through work, and they marry in Dallas. How the wedding opened a window, what two incomes did to her tax credit, and the options they weighed.
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Luis runs a landscaping business, Kaylee works at a bakery, and their first child is born in Salt Lake City. How the birth opened a window, why coverage reached back to her first day, and how the tax credit changed.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: release from incarceration
Marcus comes home to Reno in June and starts a warehouse job ten days later, with no health plan. How the 60-day window after release works on Nevada Health Link, and what he's expected to pay toward a Silver plan.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: losing Medicaid
A raise puts Tasha over North Carolina's Medicaid limit for adults, while her children keep theirs. How she moved to a Silver plan on HealthCare.gov with no gap, and how the numbers work.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: moving states
A freelance marketer moves from Chicago to Orlando in June. How her move opened a Special Enrollment Period, why her old plan mattered, and how her tax credit and a Silver plan were worked out.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: quitting a job
Ray quits his job in Las Vegas to start a consulting firm. How losing his job-based plan opened a Special Enrollment Period, how he estimated his first-year income, and why he chose a Silver plan.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: turning 26
Hannah turns 26 in June and ages off her father's plan through his job. How her Special Enrollment Period, the premium tax credit and a Silver plan worked out in Utah, step by step.
Read the storySpecial enrollment: COBRA ending
Mark's 18 months of COBRA in Phoenix end on August 31. How running out of COBRA opens a Special Enrollment Period, why dropping it early wouldn't have, and the 400% line for 2026.
Read the storyExample stories about Accident ExpenseGuard: an injury, the bills that followed, and what the plan paid.
Accident ExpenseGuard
A teenager's knee injury in Lubbock and a couple's crash on a West Texas highway. How Accident ExpenseGuard paid toward each health plan deductible, and what it left out.
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A dad's kitchen burn in Fayetteville and a woodshop accident in Hickory. How Accident ExpenseGuard paid toward each health plan deductible, including one AD&D benefit.
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A pickleball fall in Henderson and a child's broken leg in Carson City. Two examples of how Accident ExpenseGuard paid toward a high health plan deductible, step by step.
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A retiree's fall by the pool in Port Charlotte and a young designer's bike crash in St. Petersburg. How Accident ExpenseGuard paid toward each deductible, step by step.
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A trail ride that ended in a fall near Logan and a ski crash above Sandy. How Accident ExpenseGuard paid toward two high deductibles, and the two Utah rules in its brochure.
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A car accident in Mesa that hurt three family members, and a fall from a ladder at home in Prescott. How Accident ExpenseGuard paid toward each household's high deductible.
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A farmer's snowmobile crash near Ames and a college student's intramural football injury in Iowa City. Two examples of Accident ExpenseGuard paying toward a high deductible.
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A self-employed painter breaks his ankle on a weekend hike near Las Vegas. How Accident ExpenseGuard paid, where it stopped, and what it never covers.
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A 62-year-old in Las Vegas loses her foot after a car accident. How the injury benefit and the AD&D benefit both paid, and the limits of each.
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An example family in Las Vegas, a broken arm at a weekend soccer game, and how Accident ExpenseGuard worked out the payment, step by step.
Read the storyExample stories about CriticalGuard: a diagnosis such as cancer, a heart attack or a stroke, and what the plan paid.
CriticalGuard
Two fictional Texas households, one raising a grandson, set a CriticalGuard plan beside a high-deductible health plan. What the lump sums covered, and what they didn't.
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A ski instructor in Park City and a young family in Ogden: how a CriticalGuard lump sum met a high deductible, worked out step by step, with Utah's own rules.
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A family near Tampa and a bookkeeper in Sarasota set CriticalGuard beside high-deductible health plans. Here is how the lump sums were worked out, and where they stopped.
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A freelance writer in Iowa City and a couple in Sioux City: how a CriticalGuard lump sum met a high deductible, with every step of the arithmetic and Iowa's own rules.
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Two Nevada examples, in Henderson and Reno, of how a CriticalGuard lump sum can cover a high deductible and the costs around it, with the arithmetic and the limits.
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A 66-year-old in Morganton and a family in Winston-Salem pair CriticalGuard with high-deductible health plans. How the lump sums were worked out, and the North Carolina rules that mattered.
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A bookkeeper in Tucson and a couple in Chandler: what CriticalGuard paid toward a high deductible, one claim the preexisting rule stopped, and the Arizona details.
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Marcus, 58, runs a one-van repair business. Here is how his CriticalGuard plan paid after a heart attack, and what it left in place.
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Dana, 46, added a Cancer plan and the Wellness rider to her work health plan. Here is what it paid after a diagnosis, and what it didn't.
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Frank and Carol chose CriticalGuard's full-suite plan in their late 60s. Here is what it paid after Carol's stroke, and how it sits beside Medicare.
Read the storyExample stories about plans from BlueCross BlueShield Global Solutions: for a vacation, a semester, volunteering or a move abroad, and for schools and employers.
Multi-Trip Gold
See how a Multi-Trip Gold plan covered an ER visit in Mexico and a knee injury in Japan for an example frequent traveler from San Antonio.
Read the storyGroup Study Abroad: U.S. Outbound
Migraine planning, counseling and a bike fall: how a university's group study abroad plan helped an example Flagstaff family through a semester in Freiburg, Germany.
Read the storyGroup Medical Coverage for Business Travel
An example landscape architecture firm in Tucson sends staff on a few short trips abroad each year. See how one group business travel plan helped an employee through a kidney stone in Mexico.
Read the storyWorldwide Non-Profit
Vaccines, a video visit and an emergency appendectomy: what a Worldwide Non-Profit plan handled for an example volunteer from Greensboro on a two-year literacy assignment in Uganda.
Read the storyWorldwide Premier
An example retiree from Asheville moves to Portugal, keeps visiting family back home, and has her appendix out in Porto. What her Worldwide Premier plan paid, and what it didn't.
Read the storySingle Trip Platinum
An asthma flare on a Greek island cut into an example Tucson couple's 12-day honeymoon. Follow how their Single Trip Platinum plan worked out the bill.
Read the storyWorldwide Education
An example student from Iowa spends a school year at a university in Spain. Here's how the Worldwide Education plan paid for a broken wrist and ongoing counseling.
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