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21st century medicine's hard realities make the case for CI insurance.(FOCUS: CRITICAL ILLNESS INSURANCE)(Column)
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National Underwriter Life & Health
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June 20, 2005
- Author:
- George, Hank
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A FRIEND FROM ABROAD SAID TO me a few years ago that critical illness insurance would not be much of a seller in the U.S. market. Baloney.
CI insurance has an irresistible impact in America, in some ways because of how it compensates for medical care concerns highly prevalent in this country.
In the last few years, there has been an accelerating incidence of papers in the medical literature that make disconcerting distinctions between outcomes of therapies-most notably the more risky surgical procedures--in hospitals which do high volumes of the procedures as compared to hospitals where that intervention is performed markedly less often.
These reports are ...