Sunday, September 12, 2010

By Ethan Kalvin

When you are healthy you may not worry too much about your health insurance coverage, after all you have coverage and that is all that matters, right? Well, the truth is that many do not fully understand the depth of coverage provided by their health insurance until a serious health problem arises. Only then will they actually understand what these limits mean and how they can affect quality of life.

One thing is for certain when most people who are in their twenties are looking at their health insurance policy and staring at the place where it says that they have a lifetime benefit of a million dollars, they are probably thinking that sounds pretty good; never anticipating that if they hit just one serious health issue that a million dollars will only go so far.

Of course a million dollars sounds like a lot, but think about the high costs of health care and hospital stay and it should be simple to see where a million dollars will not be enough for the next forty years, even though only minor health problems might arise. You see that, although their maximum health insurance benefit is likely to remain in at a million each year, the cost of health care is increasing and if a million dollars today is the equivalent of one million dollars 20 years ago, then imagine how much less it will be 20 years from now.

While it may seem that this is more than an ample amount of health insurance coverage, it may not even be close to how much you will need to cover your health related issues over your lifetime. And if you are already looking at some health related issues then you probably already have noticed that the bills add up very quickly for tests, doctor's visits, and hospital stays. Even out patient procedures are very costly.

It is therefore logical to try to obtain health insurance that has few limitations so that you will get the most of your health insurance over time. Having your health insurance coverage fall short just when you need it most is truly disastrous. The point of having insurance coverage is whether it will be there when you need it and not run low if you're in a crisis. Otherwise, what have you really accomplished?

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