Here are five free resources (two ebooks, two webinars and a policy comparison spreadsheet) to help you choose a suitable health insurance policy.
1. Ebook on Health Insurance by Venkatesh Jayaraman.
Author Bio: I was brought up in Chennai and moved around Bengaluru, Chennai, Mysuru and Pune to cater for my career requirements. But primarily live in Bengaluru and Chennai. Personal finance was my interest even before I started to earn. I found that many youngsters were mismanaging their hard-earned money, and few also had to borrow at the month-end for their food expenses. I used to discuss with them and enlighten them on money management and personal finance.
I then extended this knowledge or advisory to new joiners so that they can plan their finances well from the initial years of their earnings and put compounding to work at an early age of 25. I had been voluntarily doing this over the last few years until my work demanded frequent travel. I started investing in stocks from the peak of January 2008, the right time to have learned many lessons on stock investment directly from the markets.
I tweet on Personal Finance and the Stock market with my Twitter handle @EWFA_. My landing page with various eBooks, presentations and notes is here: My Notes and Compilation on Value Investing. My YouTube channel is Empowering With Financial Awareness. More details on why the book was published earlier.
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2. Health Insurance Simplified by SEBI RIA Melvin Joseph
Melvin Joseph, one of India’s first SEBI registered investment advisors, has released a free ebook titled Health Insurance Simplified. It explains all terms and definitions of a health insurance policy in an easy-to-understand manner. This is Melvin’s second free e-book. The first is Life Insurance Simplified. Both books can be downloaded for free from Melvin’s website finvin.in.
3 Health Insurance simplified: A webinar by Melvin joseph
Recording of a live webinar with plenty of FAQ.
4 How to select a health insurance policy: A Webinar
This is a webinar by Deepak Mendiratta, managing director of plancover. Deepak has helped many families get medical cover and favourably resolved complicated claims. His competence is regularly displayed at FB group Asan Ideas for Wealth (AIFW). Deepak offered to host a webinar last Sunday for AIFW members to discuss the basics and key aspects of choosing a health insurance policy. This is a recording.
5 Health Insurance Policy Comparison Spreadsheet
This is a health insurance policy comparison spreadsheet prepared by K R Lakshminarayanan. Details on how & why he put this together can be found in the aforementioned link. Tweet a thank you to
Disclaimer: The contents of this sheet should be used only as a guideline to select health policies. The features mentioned in your policy document could differ from those in the sheet. Also, the sheet could have some errors as it was manually compiled. If you notice, Lakshminarayanan has made this sheet for his personal situation. You should also do this as insurance is a personalized purchase.
Do not buy any health insurance policy (any policy or product for that matter) without reading and understanding the terms and conditions!
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