Personal FinanceAugust 2, 2016by Monika Halan0Buying mediclaim is hard but harder is to know if it is any good

You need 65 two hour days to read through the brochures before you can buy medical cover. The regulator does not make it easier.

Quick, do the math. If it takes you two hours to read one policy brochure and there are 65 brochures, how much time will you spend reading? 130 hours, or a 16 eight-hour days. What, you have a day job and need to work? Skip your TV and workout and spend two hours a day reading them and you need 65 days. By which time there will be another few products in the market and your attempt to be a literate consumer who looks at disclosure statements and reads the policy documents before buying a medical insurance plan will remain undone. If you had other products to buy, such as life insurance, investment plans, home loans, you should pretty much leave everything else and just reach for the brochures.

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