by Ed Hinerman | Mar 18, 2009 | A1c, AARP, Anxiety, beneficiary, bipolar, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, business life insurance, buy/sell life insurance, bypass surgery, cancer, Dave Ramsey, Depression, diabetes, foreign travel, gastric bypass, guarantee, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, Independent agent, insurance, key man insurance, kidnap, life insurance, mortality, mortality risk, New York Life, obesity, prayer, private pilots, prostate cancer, Prudential, PSA, ransom, scuba diving, skydiving, Sleep apnea, stroke, suicide clause, suze orman, term insurance, Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, universal life, variable universal life, whole life, women
It’s been a fascinating couple of years. I will sum it up by saying that we have helped a lot of people get life insurance who never thought they could. And what better way to celebrate the information we’ve shared and the victories we’ve had than...
by Ed Hinerman | Mar 13, 2009 | blood pressure, cholesterol, COPD, decline, diabetes, gastric bypass, heart attack, high blood pressure, insurance, life insurance, obesity, smoking, stroke
One of the key life insurance underwriting factors for just about any health or mental health issue is compliance with treatment and avoidance of other risk factors and collateral health issues. Compliance is taking medication prescribed exactly as it’s...
by Ed Hinerman | Feb 24, 2009 | heart attack, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
Each day brings another reason to be more impressed by just how stupid the majority of men are. If you’re a guy and don’t want to hear this, let your wife read it. Women get this stuff. I just talked to an agent friend of mine who worked with a client last...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 31, 2009 | cancer, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, term insurance
It’s not likely that I will live long enough to actually hear every argument for not buying life insurance, but the truth is that the only thing that replaces life insurance is liquid assets, wealth. Life insurance really has two main purposes. Peace of mind is...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 27, 2009 | cancer, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, mortality risk
I rant. I rave. I scream from the rafters. The point I keep making about people’s mortality hit home again for me over the weekend when a 51 year old friend of mine died suddenly at home. Danny was just too young to die. He was too active to die. When I was...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 16, 2009 | Anxiety, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, Depression, heart attack, high blood pressure, obesity, Sleep apnea, stroke
Up until a few years ago sleep apnea, even well controlled with a cpap, was just one of those health issues that you could expect wouldn’t get much better than a standard plus approval from the best of life insurance underwriters. The same could be said of...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 10, 2009 | bypass surgery, coronary artery disease (CAD), heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance, smoking
Just 10 days into the year. 1/36th of the way through it. We hardly even have our feet wet in the new year yet and I have been bowled over by as much acute denial in this short period than I am in an average month. Is it possible the economic meltdown is causing...
by Ed Hinerman | Jan 3, 2009 | angioplasty, decline, heart attack, heart disease, smoking
I think on some level we all carry a bit of denial along with us. It’s probably a chromosomal kind of thing, like there are x, y, z and denial chromosomes. Unfortunately for those most affected by denial there is bad news from life insurance underwriters....
by Ed Hinerman | Dec 14, 2008 | blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, insurance, life insurance, obesity, stroke, Type 2 diabetes
Today would be no exception to my rule that men really don’t see a world that has consequences until they are old enough that they see the consequences happening to others their own age, or even to themselves. I spent part of yesterday evening in the emergency...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 19, 2008 | cancer, diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, obesity
Being in the life insurance business and having been on the business end of passing on checks for death benefits, I have a real sense of just how much life insurance is needed by the families that receive it and a real passion for helping others understand that buying...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 17, 2008 | angioplasty, cholesterol, heart attack, insurance, life insurance
There isn’t any question that given the clear choice between suffering a potentially fatal heart attack and having the artery opening procedure called angioplasty, the prudent thing to do is to stack the deck in your favor and open those arteries. But there is a...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 11, 2008 | blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, insurance, life insurance, prostate cancer, PSA
As soon as you tell someone that they don’t qualify for the best rates available, stand back, because the knee jerk reaction is to unload on you with something akin to the intelligent response, “So, they think I’m about to die of a heart attack, or...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 11, 2008 | cholesterol, heart attack, heart disease, insurance, life insurance
A study released this week by Astra Zeneca, makers of the cholesterol lowering drug, Crestor has turned a few heads in both the pro and the con aisle. In a nutshell the study claims that the use of Crestor, or more generically statins, can decrease the risk of heart...
by Ed Hinerman | Nov 10, 2008 | Alcohol Treatment Life Insurance, cancer, cholesterol, diabetes, Drug Treatment Life Insurance, foreign travel, heart attack, heart disease, obesity
They’re the rates you see advertised all the time and they are definitely the rates that everyone would like to be paying for their life insurance coverage. But do you qualify? First let’s dispel with a few old myths. Your age and the amount of insurance...
by Ed Hinerman | Oct 31, 2008 | angioplasty, bypass surgery, cholesterol, diabetes, heart attack, heart disease, Independent agent, insurance, life insurance
For as long as there has been life insurance and heart attacks there has been misinformation about the impact of the event on future ability to obtain the insurance. Two of the most common myths are that 1. If you’ve had a heart attack then you are simply toast...
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