When should I buy health insurance?

Large numbers of people in India believe that health insurance products are required in old age and thus, there is no use buying them at early age. The strong reason that they give for this belief is that a human body gets more prone to diseases and health issues. It shows that there is much efforts required to be taken to bring the fact of buying health insurance at early age to light. The stress should be laid on the fact that health insurance helps in availing financial coverage during medical exigencies and is better to be bought as early as possible. There is no doubt that there are certain plans that offer coverage to old aged people, but if observed keenly, these plans are not as beneficial as buying them at early age.

One buying health insurance at early age has to pay less premium amount, as compared to the one buying in old-age. Maximum number of health insurance plans in India has cover ceasing age, beyond which there is no coverage offered. There is always some waiting period associated with these plans. This mean that provider do not offer coverage for certain diseases till that time elapses. Thus, if a plan is bought at old age, when a human body becomes more prone to diseases, a person might not be able to enjoy the complete coverage.

It is, therefore, advisable to buy health insurance at early age and get it renewed for the whole life. Apollo Munich offers this benefit of lifelong renewal with its plans.