| For many families in moderate-risk Idaho, cancer | | | | hospitalization, and home care. |
| insurance plans provide great benefits. It is an | | | | For families living in financially low-key Idaho, cancer |
| undeniable fact that cancer is a devastating condition. | | | | insurance plans can help shoulder these hidden costs. |
| While over the years, various methods have been | | | | A supplemental health insurance policy can fill in the |
| devised to treat the disease, these treatments take | | | | gaps of standard health insurance, reinforcing financial |
| a lot of time and money and total eradication is not | | | | protection and providing further peace of mind. |
| guaranteed. | | | | Because the benefits are given directly to the |
| More than one million Americans are diagnosed with | | | | insured, the individual controls where they can be |
| cancer each year, and in 2005, Idaho was found to | | | | used. There are also no co-pays, deductibles or |
| have the 29th highest overall cancer incidence rate. A | | | | co-insurance requirements. |
| recent report stated that more than 6,000 cases of | | | | With part of their out-of-pocket costs shouldered by |
| cancer were reported in the state for 2008 alone. | | | | supplemental cancer insurance, families can be saved |
| Of all cancer treatment costs, less than half are | | | | from the burden of having to choose between |
| attributed to medical expenses. The bulk of the costs | | | | recommended cancer treatments and maintaining |
| are for lost productivity. Oftentimes, even if an | | | | financial stability. This can raise the chances of |
| individual is already insured with health insurance, they | | | | recovery and give hope to individuals and their loved |
| still need to shell out a substantial amount for such | | | | ones who are dealing with the disease. |
| miscellaneous expenses as transportation, | | | | |