What if you were diagnosed with cancer tomorrow? How would your life change? Now I know that things like cancer don’t happen to people like you and I. They only happen to celebrities like Christina Applegate, Lance Armstrong, Sheryl Crow, or my friend, Pam, who was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this week. Cancer is not fun…
Were you aware that you can get healthcare insurance outside of the ACA healthcare marketplace? One of the more popular routes people go through is an insurance agent or broker. Through them you can get assistance in finding the right plan to suits your needs, like short-term medical, accident, critical illness, or telemedicine. If going…
The call came that I’d been expecting. A friend who’d been battling cancer for three years passed last week. She was someone I counted on for advise. Despite her disabling disease, she stayed positive. The thing I knew about her was she left a lasting legacy for her friends and family. She had been through…
Flower shops will run out of roses on February 14th as people purchase the long stemmed beauties to show their love for one another on Valentine’s Day, but what about leaving a lasting legacy instead? It might sound unromantic, but why not do something out of the ordinary and think out of the box this…
New Year’s is just around the corner, and every year people tend to think about resolutions having to do with weight loss, fitness and other life changes. Instead of making a change that lasts only a few days or weeks, why not start looking at a change that can make a difference in your quality…
Fifteen years ago when my father-in-law had heart bypass surgery, I should have realized I was looking into a crystal ball. As my husband and I paced the waiting room, waited for the surgery to be over and then entered the cardiac intensive care unit afterward, the thought crossed my mind briefly that this…
A friend of mine has a good friend who has skyrocketing healthcare costs because of a catastrophic illness. She’s hosting fundraising events to help her out, but even those will only help so much. In the end, her friend will be left with tens of thousands of dollars in bills to be paid. The sad…
So often when we purchase life insurance, whether Term Life, Whole Life or Guaranteed Universal Life, the first thing we think of is who will benefit from it; those we leave behind. We seldom think about using life insurance while we’re living. The reality is there are many reasons to use it during our lifetimes.…
It was hard not to watch as they hugged and cried tears of joy. I sat across the isle in a restaurant drinking my coffee. They appeared to be sisters by resemblance, and were apparently just given a reprieve from what they had thought would be a final separation. I couldn’t help but overhear the…
“This whole insurance thing is just a way to separate me from my paycheck. The chances of me being disabled or having a critical illness are pretty slim, right?” There are a lot of people who think that way, but the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. Critical illness can strike anyone as well.…