When my father-in-law was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes over 40 years ago he expected to live to be about 55-years old. He resigned himself to the fact that, like his father he’d be blind and lose his limbs to the disease, and it would take him at a young age. Thanks to advances in…
Not exactly. Term Life Insurance is designed to provide for your loved ones in the event of your premature death, but NonMed Term 350 gives you more options than just to purchase a policy for a set amount. Unlike other term life policies, NonMed Term 350 can also be converted to permanent insurance, and includes an…
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…
It’s the start of little league baseball season, and time to start those DIY home improvement projects. Things are starting to happen in the great out-of-doors as the temperatures start to rise. With those outdoor activities come a lot more opportunities for the unexpected trip to the emergency room. No one likes to think it…
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…
For most us term life insurance is that one thing we know they need, but don’t want to talk about. We know we need it and invest in it, but often it is money we know will be paid out to our kids, spouses or grandchildren after we’re gone. That isn’t necessarily the case with…
“I thought if I bought a Term Life policy, only my beneficiaries would receive the benefits.” What if you’d been paying into your life insurance policy for 20 years or more and suddenly became ill and unable to work? You’ve paid premiums into the thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and yet, you…
“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.…
Disability Insurance isn’t new. As an insurance product it evolved out of accident coverage back in the late 1800s. Although the idea of replacing lost income due to accidents and injuries was a good one, the subjective nature of the term “disability” and the ease with which the policies could be abused caused the insurers…
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…