4 Biggest Mistakes You Could Make When Purchasing Health Insurance

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4 Biggest Mistakes You Could Make When Purchasing Health Insurance

Are you soon heading out looking to purchase health insurance? Well, if that is the case, you will do well to know that the insurance purchase decision is a major one - and definitely not one you should take lightly. This assertion comes from an observation of the nasty experiences that people who purchase health insurance without understanding the enormity of the purchase decision tend to go through. In a nutshell, the experiences of those people range from what can be termed as frustration to what can be termed as major regret. Looking through their often bitter experiences, it tends to turn out that they find themselves in such predicaments after having made fundamental mistakes when purchasing the health insurance. So we have collated and researched on those mistakes, and now we present these five mistakes that you should aim never to make when purchasing insurance. This we do in the hope that you will take heed and save yourself from the frustration a poor health insurance purchase could drive you into:

1. Purchasing health-insurance from financially weak insurers: it is not for nothing that people considering buying health insurance are advised to check out the financial health of the insurers they are considering buying the policy from. It is worth noting that your insurance cover is as good as the financial strength of the company providing it. Yes, there are mechanisms, in most jurisdictions, to protect the interests of the clients in the event of a health insurer going down. But more often than not, it tends to take a while before these mechanisms can kick in - during which time you would be virtually uncovered. Purchase health-insurance from financially strong insurers only.

2. Purchasing insurance from insurers who are known to 'cut corners:' the relationship between a health insurance provider and their client is one that is largely built on trust. It therefore becomes necessary to ensure that you only purchase health-insurance from insurers who have good reputations; not insurers who are known to cut corners and shift goalposts against their clients, especially when it comes to claims times. Check out what the previous client experiences with the various insurers you consider buying health insurance from have been like.

3. Purchasing the cheapest health insurance cover you can get, without checking coverage keenly: remember, in order to make the cheap pricing a possibility, some major compromises in terms of coverage have to be made. While it is advisable for you to go for the most affordable health-insurance cover you can get, you should also look at it keenly to establish what exactly you will be getting in it. Sometimes, you find cheap health insurance policies that have so much stripped out of them (in a bid to make them affordable) that they are pretty much useless to the people who buy them.

4. Purchasing health-insurance without reading the contract well: it is important to note that when purchasing health-insurance, what you buy is essentially the contract. This makes it essential for you to look at the health insurance contract keenly (including in the 'fine print section'), and make an effort to understand the clauses in it and their full implications. In things like these, the devil is always in the details. But more important than the reading is having the willpower to back out of what turns out to be a bad deal.

It often happens that people indeed read their health insurance contracts, notice the badness of the deals -and then find it hard to back so as not to 'upset' the often suave salesmen. Don't fall for this trap. If a close reading of the health-insurance contract reveals that it is a bad deal, back out of it immediately.

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