Why have critical illness insurance?

Imagine for a moment what it would be like if you had suffered a serious heart attack last month…and survived! Could you continue to work and provide for your family? Would your life style or financial health be compromised? There is a solution that takes away the worry of surviving a critical illness…Critical illness insurance provides a hassle-free way to provide liquidity to meet the financial needs during a medical crisis.

Is critical illness insurance necessary?

Life insurance pays on death, or when the insured is terminally ill, with no long-term living benefits. Disability insurance replaces income, but is insufficient for the added burden of medical expenses. Personal and retirement savings have intended purposes, other than medical expenses. Long-term care insurance is too restrictive and inflexible. Many critical illness victims make a full recovery after a lengthy expensive treatment period.

Serious illness statistics

  • Heart attack, cancer and stroke are the 3 most common diseases
  • 1 in 3 will develop some form of life threatening cancer
  • 30% of cancer victims are completely cured
  • 1 in 4 will contract cancer or heart disease before they retire
  • 1 in 2 heart attack victims are under age 65
  • 95% of heart attack victims survive the initialoccurrence
  • 1 in 2 will contract heart disease
  • 1 in 4 currently suffer from cardiovascular disease
  • 70% of open heart surgery operations each year are coronary bypasses
  • 1 in 20 run the risk of having a stroke before age 70
  • 75% of stroke victims survive the initial occurrence

Conditions that could be covered

  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Angioplasty
  • Blindness (total & permanent)
  • Cancer (life-threatening)
  • Coronary artery bypass surgery
  • Deafness (total & mp; permanent)
  • Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
  • Heart attack (myocardial infarction)
  • Paralysis (2 or more limbs)
  • Permanent total disability
  • Stroke (cerebrovascular incident)