Life & Health Insurance Rate Factors
March 18, 2009 |
Featured, Rates
There are two primary influences in what your rates and policy premiums will be with insurance companies. Your personal health or family health history is one of the largest influences you will have. The other primary influence on your premiums would be your age.
We do not know exactly how big of an impact that your age will make. However, studies indicate that there is a significant weight placed on this factor. For example, you can take an 18 year old male and a 60 year old male, both having the same medical history and every time the 60 year old male will have higher premiums for both health and life insurance.
Life insurance and health care premiums are greatly impacted by your personal health and family health history. Since many companies have been running across fraudulent activities, you may find that life insurance policies may only be obtained with some companies if you take a blood and urine sample to ensure no known pre-existing conditions exist. They want to ensure that you are being honest, so it is not uncommon for them to send someone to your home that is licensed to collect the blood and urine sample. They will also ask you a ton of questions attempting to decipher whether you are being honest about obtaining health insurance or not. Many of these questions are going to relate to your history with high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, or other serious health problems that people routinely have. Now this is not to say that all life insurance companies do this or that all policies will require this. There are certain policies that some of these life insurance companies offer that will allow you to get a policy without having an in-depth analysis of your health. These life insurance policies are typically limited to roughly $150,000. It may be a good option for you if you struggle with needles or want to simply avoid the hassle. These policies are often referred to as Guaranteed Issue Policies. Even with these, most likely have to answer a lot of questions regarding your health history. If you fail to tell the truth and the insurance company finds out, you normally end up with a voided insurance policy
The unfortunate part is that a person?s health and family history is not always something that can be controlled. If this is you, there may be life insurance policies available for you. They generally will be very expensive. Your best option is to buy one of these policies while you are young and in good health. It is typically very inexpensive in these cases.
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