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When considering a Texas individual health insurance plan let MultipleHealthQuotes.com help you understand the full extent of your coverage.

If you're comparing plans, choose the option that will provide the highest level of coverage you can afford. The higher the health plan's co-payments, deductibles, and co-insurance, the more savings you can make on premiums. But the downside is you'll have to pay more out-of-pocket for medical expenses.

Here are some common types of individual health insurance policies:

Major medical, also known as comprehensive coverage is a policy that provides coverage for a wide range of medical expenses up to a maximum amount. It may contain limits on specific types of treatments and generally has provisions for deductibles, or co-insurance, or both. The terms "health insurance" and "health coverage" are generally understood to refer to a major medical policy.

Short-term major medical policies usually have the same scope of coverage as major medical but the period of protection is generally less than one year. They can be non-renewable or, if renewable, may be restricted on the number of times it can be renewed. Individuals usually purchase short-term major medical policies when they lose their major medicals due to job loss, or other reasons. It's a temporary fix to maintain coverage until they can purchase long-term health plan again.

Basic hospital is a limited health policy that provides coverage for room and board, and other hospital expenses. It usually doesn't include medical expenses due to emergency room care, out-patient treatment, and surgery.

Basic medical-surgical polices provide the same benefits as basic hospital but also includes surgery and emergency room treatment coverage.

Accident only policies have coverage for injuries to accidents but have not benefits for illnesses. Benefits may include payments for disability, dismemberment, death, and medical and hospital expenses.

Disability income protection policies provide benefits to replace loss of income because of an inability to work due to an illness or injury.

In general, Texas individual health insurance policies cost more than an employer's group coverage health plan.

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