How to Protect Yourself From the Cost of Cancer?

By Stefan Belhomme

What is cancer insurance? Is it really necessary or is this insurance guy trying to sell me another gimmick to make money? The answer is quite simple. Cancer insurance pays you if you get cancer. It is not a major medical policy, but it does help to cover the out-of-pocket expenses like deductibles and/or coinsurance. As far as the second question goes, there are some people that do not need cancer insurance.
YOU DON'T NEED CANCER INSURANCE IF:

• you can afford the $4,000-$7,000 for chemotherapy.
• you have an extra $1,500-$10,000 to cover your medical deductible.
• you can fly your relatives & loved ones to see you in the hospital
• you can afford the high cost of alternative medicine
• you can pay for anti-nausea medication and follow-up treatment

If you fit into any of these categories please, please, please don't waste your time or money on cancer insurance. For everyone else... well it wouldn't hurt to look. The policies are relatively inexpensive and easier to qualify for than other types of insurance. Many of them offer a return of premium if you are never diagnosed with cancer. Rather than speak on cancer statistics, or ask if you have had a past family history of this disease, I'm just going to drop a few names that you may be familiar with. They all had cancer and many of them survived. Do not think you are exempt.
Name - Claim to Fame - Type of Cancer
Tony Snow - US White House Press Secretary - colon
John Kerry - US Senator - prostate
Julia Thorne - 1st wife of John Kerry - bladder
Teresa Heinz - 2nd wife of John Kerry - breast
Elizabeth Edwards - wife of US Senator John Edwards - breast
Gen. Colin Powell - US Secretary of State - prostate
Nelson Mandela - President of South Africa - prostate
Ronald Reagan - US President - skin and colon
Nancy Reagan - wife of Ronald Reagan - breast
Steve Jobs - Apple CEO - pancreatic
Paul Allen - Microsoft co-founder - Hodgkin's lymphoma
Earl Woods - father of Tiger Woods - prostate
Dana Reeve - wife of Christopher Reeve - lung
Martina Navratilova - Tennis player - breast
Joe Torre - New York Yankees manager - prostate
Lance Armstrong - cyclist - testicular
Arnold Palmer - Golf - prostate
Isaac Asimov - Writer - thyroid
Sigmund Freud - Psychologist - mouth

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