by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2007 | cancer, insurance, life insurance
Life insurance underwriters have a tough job, determining mortality risk based on all the different health factors, assigning rates that are fair to the customer and the company. But sometimes they don’t want to deal with something, so they jumble it up and...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2007 | diabetes, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes
I know that I’ve often heard that the big drug companies really don’t want to find cures for things such as diabetes and it always leaves me shaking my head. Their purported reason for avoiding the cure is that a cure would kill the cash cow they have in...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2007 | diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
All things being equal, underwriting type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes really hinge on the same issues. So, why is it that type 1 seems to incur a heavier hit than type 2? Remember that with type 2 diabetes, underwriting focuses on age of onset, control and other...
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