When the doctor’s number flashes across the screen of the caller ID after I’ve had blood work or an exam is it time to panic or do I know that I’m going to be OK? On the one hand I am in pretty good health because I’ve taken precautions to eat better and take better…
“We’re a small company with only a handful of employees. We can’t afford to provide them benefits, but we’d like to offer them something. What can we do?” At Work Advantage is perfect for situations like yours. There is no cost to you as the employer, but the Voluntary Benefits provide a portfolio of insurances…
All it took was a few hours in the emergency department, a chest x-ray and three days as an in-patient with IV antibiotics and steroids to blow my budget out of the water. The deductibles and co-pays for that trip to the hospital took nearly a year to pay off, and several times I received…
Just a week before the deadline, the push is on to sign up for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. There are a number of reasons people are waiting, but not having healthcare coverage when you need it because you don’t think you can afford it, isn’t a good reason to let the…
That’s the problem with most insurance programs. They don’t cover everything. With employee sponsored health insurance programs, there are either high deductibles and lower co-pays, or lower deductibles with higher co-pays. There are often few or no options for employer sponsored critical illness, accident or long term disability; and what if you are hospitalized? The…
“I thought if I became disabled, Social Security Disability would help me. Why do I need separate Disability Income Insurance?” First, the guidelines for Social Security Disability are pretty strict. You must be unable to do the work you previously did, as well as be unable to adapt to another job in order to qualify.…
I take good care of myself, eat right and don’t have a family history of catastrophic illness, do I really need Critical Illness Insurance? The simple answer is, everybody needs Critical Illness coverage. No one is immune to a catastrophic illness. Famed runner Jim Fixx didn’t even know he had coronary artery disease before he…
I’ve had life insurance since I was 17, health insurance coverage most of my adult life, car insurance, home-owners, renters and even postal insurance, but I’d never heard of Critical Illness coverage until recently. So I did some digging. It is fairly new in the U.S. and the growth in the insurance industry is still…
We’ve all thought and said the same thing – “It will never happen to me,” when someone we know gets the news they’ve been diagnosed with a catastrophic illness. We offer prayers and help, sincerely, but what else can we do? In reality we can protect ourselves because it can happen to anyone. A few…