State Health Insurance

State health insurance helps many people who are denied health insurance because of a medical condition or they are required to pay exorbitant insurance premiums. Insurance companies categorize these people as high risk and many states now offer risk pools to people who cannot afford health insurance due to their medical condition or those who just cannot afford them high premiums.

Although health insurance is not cheap but there are ways to get short term state health insurance through state risk pools. These risk pools are funded by the state through different means like taxes on hospital revenues. However, the main source of funding comes from grouping people together so that the group as a whole gets a competitive rate for the health insurance policy. This works similar to an employer's health insurance policy. And, the balance cost is are paid by the state.

This type of state health insurance has limited funding and is not cheap; but it offers people health insurance for short term until they can qualify for something more affordable and reasonably priced.

In order to qualify for a state risk pool, you should be a resident of the state you are applying in. Also, you should fulfill at least one of the following criteria:

· You have to show proof that health insurance was denied to you
· Your current health insurance premium should be more than the risk pool premium
· You should have a health insurance but your carrier denies payment for certain medical services or pre-existing health condition.

When you have state high risk pool health insurance policy, you cannot have Medicaid or Medicare, but some states have programs that allow people to be part of high risk pool plans while still being eligible for Medicare.