My Self-Employed Life

Last week, I wrote about planning for health insurance coverage during your self-employment while you still have employer-sponsored health insurance. This week, I talk about how to get insured if you’re already self-employed. If you’ve already started looking for insurance, you’ve probably already found that getting individual insurance can be incredibly difficult and very costly. […]

  Oh, health insurance. If you’re American, you have to worry about health insurance. If you’re self-employed, it’s an even bigger worry since health insurance has been designed to be administered through large employers. As part of my HR consultancy, I help small businesses identify and set up health insurance plans. It’s one of the

I’m starting a new series of posts called “My self-employed life” (or MSEL) about, well, my self-employed life. Okay, I realize I could have worded that description way better, but I’ve been struggling with writing the introductory column for this series for over a week now, so I’ve decided to follow my first rule of