Can I buy a term life insurance policy without taking a medical exam?

Yes. And, you can compare no exam term life insurance quotes online by visiting a life insurance website and requesting your free quote.

Some insurers offer up to $500,000 of coverage with no exam, while one highly-rated insurer offers up to $2,000,000 of no exam life insurance coverage.

Here's how to get term insurance quotes with no medical check up.

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Why do life insurance companies make you go to see a doctor for a checkup?

Actually, most life insurance companies do have a medical exam requirement for applicants based on the person's age and amount of life insurance being requested.

For instance, some insurers may require a medical exam if you are over age 30 or requesting more than $50,000 of life insurance.

However, the exam is usually a paramedical exam performed in your home or office by a paramedical examiner, not a doctor. And, the exa...
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Is there life insurance available without any health screening?

There's a couple types of life insurance plans available without an exam required.

First, there's simplified issue term life insurance that requires no health examination, but there are a few health questions for you to answer. These plans usually offer up to $250,000 (or more) of term life insurance for a period of 10, 15, 20 or 30 years.

Then, there's guaranteed approved life insurance that usually offers up to $25,000 of permanen...
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The amount of life insurance that a married couple should own will depend on several factors.

Your individual incomes, your total amount of debt, whether you have children and how many, the things you want to use your life insurance to accomplish, and your budget will all enter in your calculations on how much life insurance to purchase.

You should a life insurance needs calculator to help you determine your actual life insurance needs, and then help you find the best pricin...

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Does the cost of a term life insurance policy go up over time?

Yes, the cost of your term life insurance coverage may increase over time. With level term life insurance plans you pay the same level premium for the duration of your term. 

So, if you have a 10 year term life policy you would pay the same premium each year for 10 years. However, if you need life insurance to continue after the ten years ends, you would renew your policy and the premium would increase based on your age at renewal.


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Yes, you can almost always get life insurance while having lupus.

If your lupus is severe enough to cause kidney damage, anemia, pleurisy, pericarditis, or brain dysfunction, you will most likely need to take a simplified or guaranteed issue life insurance policy.

A guaranteed issue life insurance plan has a graded death benefit which means you need to be insured for at least 2 years before you have full coverage under your life insurance policy.

If it is mild, you can get med...

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When the term of a term life policy has ended, either:

1. The life insurance policy ends, which means there is no longer any life insurance coverage, or

2. The life insurance policy goes into an annually renewable term, unless

3. It has a rider or feature that enables it to enter a new level premium for a term of 5 or 10 years usually, at a higher price.

This new annually renewable premium is much higher than the original term life insurance premium was and can go up every year ...

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