by Ed Hinerman | Apr 13, 2008 | cancer, cholesterol, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, PSA
I have often written about the surprises that come with life insurance exam results, from the fairly benign slight elevations in cholesterol to the alarming large elevations in PSA results. The surprise should really come as no surprise because the person who gets...
by Ed Hinerman | Apr 7, 2008 | cancer, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, smoking, stroke
People act shocked and amazed when they find out they don’t get those life insurance rates advertised everywhere. I think somewhere inside they knew it would happen because those are non smoking rates and they smoke. And all that flashed fine print on the insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Getting by on less sleep is something of a badge of honor. I’ve heard people state and sometimes brag about the fact that they only need 4-5 hours of sleep a night. For all of those hardworking people who are holding down two jobs, or are single parents, a lack...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 10, 2008 | heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
I’ve written posts on the subject of the “revolutionary” ultra fast CT scan, the snap shot of the heart that would finally put an end to invasive diagnosis methods such as cathaterization. In those posts you may remember that the problem was that the...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 26, 2008 | bipolar disorder, blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Let me just reiterate from previous posts that if you have bipolar disorder, you can expect for almost all life insurance companies to decline you. They don’t care to what degree the disorder impacts your life. They put the completely functional CEO of a company...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 21, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Whether or not you agree that there is an obesity epidemic, you would have to have on some pretty serious blinders to not see that lifestyle changes over the past 40 years have definitely packed the pounds on the average US citizen, if not the whole world. An article...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 19, 2008 | bipolar disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
As the word sneaks out a little further each day, I have more and more people contacting me and asking if it’s true. Can they get life insurance at affordable rates even though they have bipolar disorder? I wish I could claim that the answer is unequivocally...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 13, 2008 | bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, Depression, diabetes, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, term insurance
There are so many options to shop for your life insurance needs, each making the claim that they will save you money. Save 70% on your term insurance! Hundreds of companies to choose from! Give us 10 minutes and you could save hundreds of dollars on term life...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 8, 2008 | bipolar disorder, diabetes, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity
I have often made the life insurance underwriting comparison between diabetes and bipolar disorder. In simple terms, what is needed to get the best possible rates is compliance with prescribed treatment and good control. The good control is of course different with...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 7, 2008 | diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, Type 2 diabetes
Well, just when life insurance underwriters and doctors think they’re on the same page, and they believe it’s the right page, someone kicks the door down and throws a wrench in their thinking. In search of a way to control diabetes, and specifically type 2...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 5, 2008 | diabetes, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Well, I’ve got your good news and your bad news. You know how I’ve gone on and on about all of the collateral health issues attributable to obesity. Now there is a study that indicates that people who are obese may in fact have lower health care costs than...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 1, 2008 | breast cancer, cancer, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, obesity
While I generally agree with most family history guidelines that life insurance underwriters use, there are times when common sense simply has to override the guidelines. After all, they are called underwriting guidelines, not rules. I’ve had to defend family...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 31, 2008 | cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, smoking
Smoking is often touted by those who partake as a way to calm themselves. Of course, from a life insurance standpoint, calm or not, smoking carries so much health baggage with it that rates for smokers are dramatically higher than non smokers. A recent study suggests...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 25, 2008 | diabetes, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
It’s an election year and in case you haven’t heard what we’ve spent on the war on terror, or in Afghanistan, or in Iraq, just turn on the evening news and I assure you that you will catch a sound bite from someone talking about all that money....
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 24, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity, Type 2 diabetes
I was asked a few days ago to be interviewed, as a high school assignment, on the subject of obesity and insurance rates. The core question was concerning the fairness of charging higher rates for someone who is overweight. Rebecca Kuo, a student from Houston, TX was...
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