by Ed Hinerman | Aug 13, 2011 | coronary artery disease (CAD), heart disease, insurance, life insurance
It’s been years since I’ve run head long into an ultra fast CT scan that just simply defies all logic. Ultra fast CT scans are used to stop the heart mid beat so the chambers and arteries can be looked at in detail. It has been touted as the answer to non...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 11, 2011 | basal cell carcinoma, insurance, life insurance, melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma
What a summer, huh? I heard on the news the other day that somewhere in Oklahoma had set a new all time record high for any state over a full month. We’re talking hotter than Arizona!! I’m pretty blessed to live at 7000′ in Colorado where yesterday...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 9, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, term insurance, whole life
The 70% savings lure in life insurance advertising is probably been so used that it is a brand by itself. Never mind the companies the promote it, who wouldn’t want to save 70% over what they are currently paying for a comparable life insurance product. So, the...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 8, 2011 | Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Depression, insurance, life insurance
When i see how some life insurance underwriters treat clients with generalized anxiety, often offering standard rate or worse approvals, I wonder if they’re living in the same country as the rest of us. USA could easily stand for the United States of Anxiety...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 5, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, professional athlete life insurance
There is a mistaken belief that people that have really great incomes, like professional athletes, don’t really need life insurance. The assumption is you have a large income you probably have it managed so that your family would be taken care of if you died...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 3, 2011 | cholesterol, HDL, insurance, life insurance
Just when you have everything comfortably figured out some scientist or doctor or study throws a curve ball at you. Cholesterol was something we all finally got. We knew that if our cholesterol was 200 or under and our LDL, HDL and triglycerides were in the...
by Ed Hinerman | Aug 1, 2011 | business life insurance, insurance, life insurance, over 50 life insurance
For a lot of people reaching the big FIVE O, is a moment to ponder. “Ok. I’m halfway to 100. Most people I know who are a hundred are dead.” Maybe being over 50 life insurance should start flashing on the radar. Little blips saying “you...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 27, 2011 | AARP, final expense life insurance, insurance, life insurance, no exam
I know that you know that I seem to have a real case of the can’t shut ups when it comes to the New York Life / AARP life insurance program, but AARP is so in the face of our country and especially the elderly among us, well, it’s become kind of personal....
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 26, 2011 | insurance, life insurance, smoking
As independent life insurance agents there is a kind of longing for the good old days when US Financial offered non smoking rates to social smokers and when CNA would issue a policy to a smoker at non smoking rates, with the caveat that they had to quit smoking within...
by Ed Hinerman | Jul 26, 2011 | bait and switch, cancer, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
I am left shaking my head occasionally when I hear a client say that my quote is much higher than some other quote they have received. Since I shop virtually every case I quote I am confident when I send out quotes, well, they are as good as it is going to be after...
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