10 Tips on Avoiding Major Health Insurance Traps

GOING WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE

For those not insured through an employer, there’s a nationwide open enrollment period when anyone can sign up for health insurance, but it only comes once per year.

For most states, that enrollment date ended Dec. 15, 2017. Failing to enroll could cost you money should a medical problem arise when you’re uninsured. You also might be slapped with a tax penalty in effect until 2019.