Reviews for The Complete Book of Insurance

The average rating for The Complete Book of Insurance based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-08-30 00:00:00 Fenasi Kerim An overly-enthusiastic book about Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). Sometimes I was amused, but usually I was just annoyed, by this misplaced enthusiasm. The author seems to think HSAs are the panacea for all of our health care problems. If only it were that simple. An example of the kind of thing this author says repeatedly: "High-deductible health insurance and other consumer-directed health benefit tools will do much more than just save money on paperwork--they will cause nothing short of a revolution in how and where medical care is delivered." Viva la revolution! Seven years after this book was written, and I'm still waiting for my revolution. He's another amusing one: "I am gushing with American patriotic pride in our free enterprise system." That's not to say this book won't give you plenty of information about HSAs, but it's not worth a whole book, and certainly not worth having to listen to this guy drone on about how excited he is about them.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-06-17 00:00:00 Alejandra Lozano Tedious and cluttered. Takeaways: the US health care system is unbelievably inefficient, often overcharging regular consumers by 200-500% to leave room for discount prices to large purchasers; bad health is VERY expensive when you add up all the hidden costs such as insurance; and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) and health savings accounts (HSAs) are excellent new choices for employers and employees respectively. I didn't realize how little sense it makes for health insurance to come from employers, because if an employee develops a condition, then leaves that job, they need to purchase a new policy at much higher cost since they now have a pre-existing condition. So stupid.