by Ed Hinerman | Sep 30, 2008 | cancer, decline, heart attack, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Sleep apnea
Well, duh! Of course you do, but the good news is that you don’t have to be breathing all the time. After all, sleep apnea could be loosely described as periods of not breathing during sleep. Sleep apnea is one of those health issues that life insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Sep 8, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, obesity
It’s always good to talk to people who have come through major health issues like heart attacks or cancer and have taken the bull by the horns and made life style changes that will likely add years to their lives and a bonus of quality to go with it. Then there...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 20, 2008 | blood pressure, cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Virtually all life insurance companies take your immediate family health history into consideration at some level. They don’t all view it the same and they certainly don’t all treat it the same, but it is in their guidelines and they seldom waiver. This...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 6, 2008 | cholesterol, diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, obesity, term insurance
Life insurance agents don’t usually get paid unless they make a sale. This can sometimes cast us in a shady light if the application doesn’t go as planned and we start offering alternatives. People perceive us as doing what it takes to salvage some income...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 30, 2008 | angioplasty, bypass surgery, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
Early on in my work with cardiac patients needing life insurance I learned to ignore what they remembered their cardiologist telling them about their prognosis, and just dig for facts. The most important fact that we needed uncovered and on the table was the amount of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 21, 2008 | angioplasty, bypass surgery, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, insurance, life insurance
One of the challenges we face each week is finding affordable life insurance for people who have suffered a heart attack, or have undergone angioplasty or heart bypass surgery after having chest discomfort due to blocked arteries. The good news! The folks we are...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 20, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
At least a dozen times a week I get an opportunity to review someone’s current and historical health with them. I’m on a fact finding mission with the goal of getting each person the best possible life insurance rates they can expect in their unique...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 9, 2008 | blood pressure, cancer, cholesterol, heart attack, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
There aren’t many weeks that go by without hearing from someone who has finally figured out that they should have life insurance…..because their own mortality has been flashed before their eyes. This can come in the form of losing a friend or loved one or...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 1, 2008 | cancer, guaranteed issue life insurance, heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
To a guy this makes perfect sense. From my own experience I can tell you that most women, especially those married to guys that feel fine, don’t share that philosophy. Unlike us guys, they think doctors are serious about the importance of annual physicals and...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 25, 2008 | heart attack, life insurance
I wrote this back in 2008 and while heart health is just as relevant today, what is good for avoiding heart issues is also good for lessening the severity of a cardiac event if one does happen. If you do have a cardiac event, less severe is the best way to acquire...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 23, 2008 | bypass surgery, cancer, diabetes, gastric bypass, heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
There is a real tendency in our society to brand the morbidly obese as taking the easy way out of the problem they’ve created by considering gastric bypass surgery. Gastric bypass reduces the size of the stomach by stapling off the majority. This causes massive...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 9, 2008 | angioplasty, bypass surgery, cancer, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, heart attack, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
Any time I am working with a new client who has had serious health issues, there are specific pieces of information I need that are essential to my ability to provide an accurate quote. On rare occasions people will know the critical information, but most of the time...
by Ed Hinerman | Jun 1, 2008 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance, private pilots, stroke
I was having a discussion with a private pilot concerning life insurance one day. This particular pilot had been a client for some time and a few year earlier had suffered something akin to a stroke. The FAA had pulled his license after the incident. He was calling to...
by Ed Hinerman | May 28, 2008 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, diabetes, heart attack, heart disease, hepatitis, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes
There must be a couple of million people in the US licensed to sell life insurance. If you take in the giant internet mega agencies, all of the independent agents, and all of the captive agents (work for just one company), the possibilities for purchasing life...
by Ed Hinerman | May 20, 2008 | heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity, smoking
To me this is another great example of our education system really missing the mark as far as what they perceive to be the most valuable information a young adult needs to get on with life. It is, and isn’t amusing that a high school student is required to pass...
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