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Health insurance not an option anymore but a necessity!
Have you crossed your 20s and haven’t bought a health insurance yet while planning your saving all these years? If yes, be ALARMED! An expense worth lakhs might swipe your entire savings in a jiffy without even giving you a chance to prepare for such an unforeseen situation. While in their 20s and 30s, majority…
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How to save money on health insurance
A health insurance plan has become a necessity in today’s age when medical costs are soaring. Imagine being hospitalised for any illness and a bill amounting to tens of thousands staring at you when you are discharged! Wouldn’t the bill threaten to wipe out your savings? Read more why health insurance is a necessity It…
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Top 5 insurance myths that you need to bust NOW
When it comes to insurance, most of you shirk away from it. In spite of the innumerable benefits bestowed by an insurance plan, people shy away from it. Why? The reason is a lack of knowledge. Insurance is a technical concept which escapes the understanding of many. Other than the premium cost and the benefits…
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Are you out-of-pocket healthcare expenses high/
‘Health is wealth’ and so we are told but when it comes to maintaining it, we are none the wiser. Given the modern lifestyle and pollution, our health suffers the most. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study conducted by The Lancet, India ranks 154th amidst a list of 195 countries in healthcare index…
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Should one buy a life insurance or health insurance or both and when?
Life Insurance and Health Insurance are the two major requirements in everyone’s life. Both provide financial security against unavoidable contingencies. While life insurance provides security in event of death, a health insurance policy secures your finances in a medical emergency. Since both death and illness are unavoidable contingencies, a life and a health insurance plan…
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What is insurance and how does it work?
Rahul is super confused about all the jargons that are thrown on him whenever he reads insurance; Rahul avoided insurance, but then with his first job came his first car and then the company offered him Health insurance as a part of his package and Rahul had a Motor insurance and also a Health Insurance…
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Renewing your health plan? Keep these points in mind
Health insurance plans have become a way of life. The rising incidence of diseases and the high cost of treating them spell doom for a common man’s finances in the absence of a health insurance plan. As such, people are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity of having valid health insurance coverage. In fact, besides…
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5 technologies that are transforming healthcare
Together, technology and healthcare share an interesting past. Technological breakthroughs have almost always resulted in simultaneous breakthroughs in the medical field. A good example is how the advent of information technology revolutionized the way patients’ records were stored and recalled. Some technologies, like social media and health apps, have even brought medicine to the masses.…
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Health Insurance and Critical Illness Insurance India Comparison
Last week I was reading the newspaper when an article caught my attention. Apparently, more and more Indians were becoming a victim to various types of non-communicable diseases. Hypertension, diabetes, pulmonary disorders, cancers of different organs, etc. were becoming alarmingly common according to the article. While the article highlighted the burden of diseases on the…
