QUOTE(cherroy @ May 26 2014, 02:53 PM)
If company cover the medical already, then personal medical is not a priority already. (not to say one cannot have, just low in prioritisation )
For my knowing that most under employed people are poor to middle class people, and majority don't have unlimited budget or most can have little saving left every month.
To have double medical insurance (company + personal medical)? while every month left nothing for saving or for other purposes? It is a good financial planning?
Since budget is tight for most middle class people, there is always need to prioritise.
For eg.
Company already provide medical coverage, so don't need personal medical immediately, but look for life coverage.
While if the person is not bread winner of family, then life insurance is not the most important to have.
At young age, it is important to save enough for emergency fund, built up capital for investment.
As investment is the one that can turn a person faith of future down the road. As with capital, one can start a business, change the coarse of one entire life career, as well as investment can provide passive investment, and capital gain, that may also change the path of a person life.
vs
never can buy enough insurance, until left no money, then struggling for the rest of the life (extreme example only)
So take up or not to take up certain insurance is also an important part of financial planning.
Not taking up certain insurance is not mean that the person doesn't know financial plannning!
Bro, great explanation on financial planing.
But sorry I gonna disagree for the medical insurance part. I have some friends, one of them diagnose with nose cancer, another with SLE. My friend with nose cancer have to resign in order to receive medical treatment and surgery, in other words, he had lost the company medical insurance. Both of them are very young, 28 and 25 only. But they will never get a medical insurance or upgrade medical coverage any more.
Without medical insurance, all the emergency fund had go into medical cost and treatment already.
For them, the greatest wealth is health. It will be impossible for them to think about investment or business. We always take for granted to have a good health, but once in illness, all those wonderful dream will disappear and everything will prioritise on health.
FYI, company medical insurance is group insurance, not a life/individual insurance. Once the person resign, he will lose the medical coverage.
Medical Insurance is not for everyone, or when you have money, you can buy as much as you need.
Too bad it is only for healthy person, and if the person get older, the higher risk and harder to get approved. I had a client, his medical insurance had deferment, now pending medical checkup. I just hope everything will be OK without loading or exclusion.
Medical Insurance are as low as RM5 per day for age 30 below, even cheaper then a Chatime. Is that still very expensive or too heavy?
This post has been edited by conqu3ror: May 26 2014, 07:57 PM