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Think health insurance isn’t for you? Better think again

Spoiler alert: We are a health insurance company and we’re about to tell you that you need to buy health insurance. Big surprise, right? Look, we’r ...

Find recovery in Maine: Getting support for substance use disorder

Too many of us have seen a neighbor, a friend or family member struggling with substance use. The good news: There’s always hope for recovery. You ...

Community Health Options to administer MaineHealth’s CarePartners program

Community Health Options is the new administrator for CarePartners, MaineHealth’s program providing free or low-cost healthcare for low-income, unin ...

Health insurance lingo, translated

Health insurance talk can feel like another language. And even for those of us who are fluent in it, there’s still room for confusion! Read on for a ...

HMO vs. PPO: What’s the difference?

As if buying health insurance isn’t hard enough, what with all the confusing lingo, it can be a challenge just to figure out what all those initials ...

What’s with health insurance metal levels? Is going for the bronze the winning choice?

When you buy health insurance, you can choose from four categories called “metal levels”—Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum. These have nothing to do ...