While a lot can be said about being in business for yourself - either via freelancing or owning your own business - being a regular employee does have certain advantages.
And the foremost advantage is being covered by health insurance.
Having health insurance is so important that it's almost impossible to overstate it's benefits.
For one, the ability of illness to wipeout your finances and get you into debt is so great that it's almost peerless.
Second, illness not only costs money, but can prevent you from earning more. That's true even for regular employees.
Even though being ill should not be taken against you during performance appraisals (which can determine your salary increase), it doesn't do you any favors when being compared with peers who have produced more simply because they were still there when you were out sick.
But the benefits of health insurance doesn't stop at simply having it. Here's a look at the three most important benefits of HMO to employees.
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