posted on:  8/3/2006     revised: 3/9/2009

Following is an editorial submitted to Forbes magazine. It was not published by Forbes.

Forbes Editors:
In response to the excellent article "Insurance: Healthy Alternatives" by Tara Weiss on 7/25/06, I wish to mention that you left out what I believe is one of the most important resources in the short term medical insurance industry. I am the founder of Freedom Benefits Association that is one of the nation's largest supporters of short term medical insurance enrollment.

Freedom Benefits, combined with its affiliates and subsidiaries, is the fourth largest online enroller for short term medical insurance in the U.S. and is only 1/20 the size of industry leader ehealthinsurance.com. But the key difference worth noting in your article is that Freedom Benefits provides personal enrollment assistance for all health plans, not just the ones available for sale by the Web site's sponsors. This means that every US resident in all 50 states plus DC can get help finding the right coverage, regardless of their health history or eligibility for plans listed for sale on commercial insurance Web sites. Our reputation for serving diabetic clients, for example, is unmatched in the industry. This wider range of service, we believe, has enabled MedSave.com to more effectively address a more diverse customer base of online health insurance shoppers.

Freedom Benefits has been in operation since 1997 and has helped more than 80,000 people find low cost medical insurance in all states nationwide.

Tony Novak
founder of Freedom Benefits Association



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