Health Insurance Consumer Guides: The Georgetown University Health Policy Institute has written A Consumer Guide For Getting And Keeping Health Insurance for each state and the District of Columbia. These valuable and informative Consumer Guides, which are updated periodically, are available at this web site.

Consumer Reports Magazine: An extensive report, The Perils of Buying Your Own Policy, published in September 2002, provides a wealth of useful, and often invaluable information, for anyone purchasing health insurance. The report includes sections on "traps" to avoid, issues in shopping for your own policy, and ratings of policies available in six U.S. cities.

WebMD This aricle, Ten Questions to Ask Before Choosing A Health Plan, helps you decide what type of health insurance plan best suits your needs and budget. Note: Although this article is dated 1999, it still looks valuable to us.

Smart Money.com The title of this article, Ten Things Your Health Insurer Won't Tell You is self-explanatory. Smart Money does an excellent job of describing the pitfalls to avoid, and how to ge the highest value out of your health insurance.