30-Day Open Enrollment Period Allows Self-Employed to Shop for Guaranteed Issue Health Insurance.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- The month of August is the only time during the year when self-employed self-em·ployed adj. Earning one's livelihood directly from one's own trade or business rather than as an employee of another. self Floridians can take advantage of purchasing health insurance without being denied coverage due to any health conditions they may have. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Florida Florida, state, United States Florida (flôr`ĭdə, flŏr`–), state in the extreme SE United States. A long, low peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean (E) and the Gulf of Mexico (W), Florida is bordered by Georgia and Association of Health Underwriters' President Wayne Sakamoto, "This is an important opportunity for the self-employed to shop their existing coverage or to get coverage if they are currently without health insurance." Coverage is available from any insurance company or HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, writing group business for groups between 1 and 50 employees in Florida. Any plans applied for during the open-enrollment period will have an effective date of October 1st. Self-employed Floridians who apply for coverage must show certain documentation to verify (1) To prove the correctness of data. (2) In data entry operations, to compare the keystrokes of a second operator with the data entered by the first operator to ensure that the data were typed in accurately. See validate. that they are operating an active business. Members of the Florida Association of Health Underwriters are available to help consumers understand their choices and to help them apply for this valuable coverage. About the Florida Association of Health Underwriters (FAHU): The Florida Association of Health Underwriters mission is to protect the consumer's future. To accomplish our mission, we will strengthen the insurance marketplace by advocating effective legislation, ethical leadership and professional standards, and by educating our members and the consumers they serve. For more information visit our website at http://www.fahu.org. |
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