Here is a list of the Top 10 biggest health insurance companies in California. Links are provided to individual plans wherever possible.





This page shows the number of complaints against the company as measured by Google survey. It also attempts to list the plans by type - HMO, PPO or POS.

California Companies - Other Companies -

List of Pre-Existing Conditions - Disclaimer

Vaughn's Summaries

Economics Summaries

Bad Collection Agency - NCO
Best Banks
Calif. Auto Insurance
Calif. Health Insurance

Checking Accounts
Credit Card Offers
Credit Reports
Debit or Credit?

Gold Coins Investment
Postal Rates
Savings Accounts
Social Security Payments

30

540-860

30

260

1,130

Aetna

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-

Life Stages - Plan Details

Assurant (Fortis)

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-

-

Plan Types

Blue Cross (dba Anthem)

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-

Good online info

Blue Shield (Calif.)

-

Plans listed, but no details.

0

Celtic Health

-

-

-

Economical - Comprehensive

1,750

CIGNA Healthcare (Calif.)

Good online info

Health Net

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-

-

-

Can't see plans - quotes only!
Worst web site - no search function
No site map

686
202

Kaiser
Kaiser Permanente

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-

-

-

California Health Plans
"Find A Plan" means "Get A Quote"

0

Nationwide Health (Calif.)

-

-

-

No info - no site map - no search function.
Just "Give us all your info".

53

Pacificare
(UnitedHealthCare Calif.)

Cannot be linked to - URLs are too long
Plans not detailed, just listed.

In each case above, I have linked to the information, IF it is provided. You can clearly see who is helpful, and who is not. I prefer to deal with companies who DESCRIBE their plans, not companies that HIDE them, and try to sign you up first. How about you?

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These companies all want to give you a quote, rather than describing their plans. Getting a quote requires that you INPUT ALL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, BEFORE you even get to see the plan. Then you get buried in mail, email, and phone calls, which is NOT what I want. I want INFORMATION ONLINE, and that is the very thing that they are reluctant to give you.

Do you know of any other industry who sells you their product FIRST, and then tells you what you bought LATER?

WHY do they do this?
They don't want you to know exactly what you get, because you don't get much.
ALL these organizations operate to MAXIMIZE their profits. This means they -
1. Seek to maximize your premiums and co-payments, and
2. Seek to minimize your treatment, since ALL treatment reduces their profits.

Oftentimes, you do NOT get what you pay for, which is common practice in the health industry.
ALL these companies have a HUGE FLAW - profit is generated and maximized by actively, purposely denying service, on a case by case basis. You must scream your head off to get what you paid for. DOS (Denial Of Service) is part of the business plan of health insurance companies. All of these facts make health insurance selection extremely difficult, and distasteful.

The State of California is worthless as a resource - try these links on this page - California Insurance Companies
Health Insurance and California Department of Managed Health Care HMO List, and of course, this -
"No list of health insurers operating in California is available on this web site at this time." Where is the Insurance Commissioner? Appointed, so I guess he doesn't have to do anything.

Health Insurance News from Google

40

70

190-800

50

50

50

50

270

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1

Altius

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-

-

-

-

46

Ameritas

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-

-

-

-

2,530

Destiny Health

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-

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-

Highest complaint count - Googlebombed?

1

HealthAmerica (Coventry)

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-

-

-

-

Humana

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-

-

-

-

0

SelectHealth

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-

-

-

-

UNICARE

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-

-

-

-

UnitedHealthCare
United HealthCare

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-

-

-

-

3

Wellpath (Coventry)

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-

-

-

-

40

70

190-800

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-

-

-

270

Disclaimer
The opinions stated on this page are solely the opinions of the author.
Although the author exercises due diligence, errors can and do occur.
It is very difficult to provide accurate information, when the insurance companies PURPOSELY obfuscate their plans.
I hope this page helps you with your Medical Insurance buying decision.

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