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Health Insurance and Ethics

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Does it really matter that much as to which sports adventure the health insurance company decides to accept or reject? There are pros and cons to every facet in life and the various sports activities are no exception. Most sports professionals, whether baseball, tennis, rock climbing, roller skating, snow boarding, fencing, football, well you get the idea. All members of sports teams find it very difficult and find medical health insurance methods to vague for statistically studies.

The insurance companies do run a sort of numbers game and some will even admit to it, but how else can they ever expect to remain in business. Obtaining good comprehensive medical insurance is difficult for the average individual. Can you even begin to understand what it is like for the professional sports participants?

Insurance is a big business and like all businesses they have plans and they have projections for the potential outcomes. They must always consider all factors when offering any group of individuals an affordable health insurance policy.  The status of the individual, like sports participants sometimes get in the way as do other at risk positions like oil rigging which makes it very understandable.

What they look at is how at risk an individual or a particular group of individuals is before offering any type of medical health care coverage. Insurance companies frown upon risky occupations and then the individual sports participant, applying for medical health care insurance will receive insurance coverage at an outrageous price.

The price tag that goes with this medical coverage is a deliberate attempt to discourage not the individual, but the lifestyle or position of choice the individual chooses to live. This is dictating how a person will live out their life and so individuals without affordable health insurance coverage sometimes fall into this valley of abyss.

When pre conditions are involved, this represents a difficulty in obtaining low cost health insurance coverage simply because there is always a waiting period unless the individual had insurance coverage that is not in danger of lapsing. Short of this, the waiting period varies from six months to eighteen months depending on the particular malady.

One important fact to keep in mind is that the health insurance companies continuously update what they consider to be a precondition and it does become a bit tricky. An individual can have a precondition not brought to the attention of a medical physician. In this case, the individual will receive an insurance policy without a hitch. If an individual has a precondition and is currently under treatment without a prior health insurance policy, they will face a waiting period.

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Medical Coverage

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Medical coverage in general for the various amateur and professional baseball and softball players has always been very expensive. In fact, the truth be known, medical health insurance coverage until recently is one of the most important and expensive necessities that all sports players must invest. Today, though some of the insurance providers are taking a second look most sports enthusiasts are among the healthiest in the total population. Some of the coverage in discussion is:

1.               Five hundred thousand dollars of accident insurance maximums

2.               Individual health insurance and dental benefits with no limits

3.               All customary insurance with no internal limits

4.               One hundred thousand dollars of lump sum benefits payable after six months

5.               Forty thousand dollars a year fixed benefits up to a ten year period

6.               Five hundred dollars of catastrophic insurance benefits

Another interesting topic that is currently in discussion is the possibility of a more in depth liability health insurance coverage for all participating players and field employees as well.  Like with anything else the more involved the more the affordable health insurance becomes a reality for all players. The liability health insurance coverage in current talks consists of the following.

1.               $1,000,000 Sports Liability - Occurrence Form

2.               $1,000,000 per occurrence/$2,000,000 aggregate

3.               $1,000,000 per occurrence/$3,000,000 aggregate

This also offers a multitude of protections to all the surrounding employees that are in employ during the hours of each game. In turn this allows for the average monthly cost for health insurance to continue to remain as low as possible with the added benefit of liability health insurance coverage. These protections extend outward to the following.

1.               All participants, spectators, and coaches

2.               Additional insured availability

3.               Youth and adult groups

4.               Extended medical benefits to all spectators while on or in the premise

All of this health care information, and who is under the umbrella of protection, is explainable through medical pamphlets. What this does afford though is the peace of mind for all spectators as well as all of the sports professionals when it is game time. This lures many more spectators into the fold than would occur under normal circumstances and that is a good change of venue.

When the highly charged spectators are aware they have medical health care when on the premise during game day they will rest easy. Though most spectators do fine and do enjoy the daily activities, there are rare instances when a spectator is injured.

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