by Ed Hinerman | May 18, 2009 | asthma, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, obesity, stroke, Type 2 diabetes
Guilty as charged. I am one of those recovering saltaholics that grabs the salt shaker and tops off a meal before I’ve even taken a bite to see if it needs it. I love salt and although I am getting better about at least giving something a taste first, the truth...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 30, 2009 | asthma, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, cancer, decline, diabetes, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, prostate cancer, Type 2 diabetes
It’s just a bad feeling when a life insurance company declines to offer you coverage. They don’t want to accept the mortality risk!! Do they think you’re dying? Is there something your doctor isn’t telling you? Will you ever be able to get life...
by Ed Hinerman | May 22, 2008 | asthma, COPD, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, smoking
I went off a bit on some of the more ridiculous combinations with smoking the other day. Smoking and asthma. Smoking and heart disease, etc. Some guy (blog name Joe Camel (clever)), took some hard swings at the life insurance industry for being so mean to smokers....
by Ed Hinerman | May 15, 2008 | asthma, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, insurance, life insurance, smoking
A perfectly healthy person who smokes can expect to pay, best case, twice as much as a person who doesn’t smoke for life insurance. I’ve been on that soap box often enough that I don’t know that I need to beat it to death anymore. With that being...
by Ed Hinerman | May 6, 2008 | asthma, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I had a call earlier today from a long time friend that is going to be coming through. Bob has asthma and quizzed me about whether we still had cats or not. More than once he has decided not to stay the night because cats and his asthma just don’t mix. Now Bob...
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