Health IQ Life Insurance Review: If You Can Run An 8-Min Mile, Click Here

Who Is Health IQ?

Based in Mountain View, CA, Health IQ is an online life insurance broker well-known for offering low rates to health-conscious individuals.

It offers three types of life insurance

• Term life (including guaranteed issue)
• Whole life
• Disability insurance

Is Health IQ Legit?

Health IQ was founded in 2014 on the belief that life insurance companies were not rewarding health-conscious individuals for their positive lifestyle choices.

Health IQ has capitalized on this insight to issue $60+ billion in life insurance coverage and attract investments from prominent investment firms like Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, and Foundation Capital.

What Makes Health IQ Unique?

Everyone claims to offer the lowest prices.

But unless a company has a sustainable (and believable) competitive advantage, you can rest assured that their “low prices” are one of two things:

• Temporary
• Misleading (e.g., a low sticker price, accompanied by hidden fees)

How Does Health IQ Work?

So what competitive advantages let Health IQ offer consistently lower prices.

The answer is its advanced underwriting.  (Meaning, the methods it uses to analyze your data, judge your risk, and calculate the premium rate you should pay).

This underwriting approach is guided by a well-known and straightforward health reality:

Americans with an active, healthy lifestyle have a much lower risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes (two of the leading causes of death).

If a life insurance company could accurately judge which applicants were living a healthy lifestyle and which were not, it could approve only the healthy ones.  These policyholders would live longer, and the company would pay less in death benefits.

It could then pass on some of these savings to the consumer at lower prices than the competition.

This is exactly what Health IQ has done.

Use of Unique Data

Most life insurance companies use a standard list of the same health questions that consumers have seen for decades.

Health IQ asks unique questions about your current health and health knowledge (your “Health IQ”).  It then runs these data points through its mathematical model to better predict your long-term health.

This model took several years to build and involved research in understanding which data accurately identified the healthiest applicants.

Health IQ Product Offerings

Health IQ is an independent life insurance agency.

It handles the customer experience from beginning to end, from your quote on their website to the licensed agents who answer any questions you have to your final approval and pricing. But it does not issue a formal policy.

Health IQ partners with ~30 well-known insurance carriers, such as Prudential, Pacific Life, and Lincoln Financial, for issuance of the formal term or whole life policy.

Term Life Insurance

Health IQ’s original and most popular product is term life insurance.

Given the number of carriers it works with, Health IQ can offer a wide range of policy options:

• Term lengths: 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years
• Coverage: $25,000 to $50,000,000 (that’s not a typo: they offer up to $50 million)

Premiums stay the same for the policy’s life and can be paid monthly, quarterly, or annually.

Policy Riders

The riders you can add vary from policy to policy, but one is near-universal.

Nearly all Health IQ policies include a term conversion rider, which allows you to convert your term life policy to a whole life policy at any point.

(Of course, you’ll have to pay higher premiums for the whole life policy.)

Guaranteed Issue Whole Life Insurance

Health IQ also offers a Guaranteed Issue life insurance product.

As the name suggests, customers cannot be declined (for health reasons).  It also features:

• No medical exam
• Approvals within 48 hours
• Up to $25,000 in coverage
• Guaranteed coverage for ages 50 to 85

Third-Party Health IQ Reviews

Health IQ has strong customer reviews.

The Company has an aggregate rating of 4.7 stars (out of 5) on Trustpilot, from 487 unique reviews.

We looked at all of these reviews and removed reviewers who had only one review on the platform.  (We consider reviewers more credible as they have more reviews on the platform.)

When we averaged these reviews, Health IQ had a 4.8-star rating, slightly higher than their unadjusted aggregate rating.

Finally, the Company is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and has an A+ rating.

Why NOT Go With Health IQ?

To recap, what differentiates Health IQ is its ability to confirm that healthy individuals are as healthy as they claim to be.

With this knowledge, the Company can offer lower premium rates to their policyholders without the risk of under-funding their future liabilities.

Lengthy Application

To do this, however, Health IQ needs to collect more information than a typical application.

While competitors like Bestow offer a 100% online process and a 15-minute start-to-approval experience, the process with Health IQ is longer for two reasons:

• Their application is more extensive and you have to take a 30-question “health IQ” quiz (to qualify for the lowest rate)
• The final part of the application requires speaking to an agent, typically the following day

Frequently Asked Questions

Conclusion

And that should do it for this Health IQ Life Insurance review!

If you have any lingering questions, don’t hesitate to leave a comment or send us an email at [email protected].  We’ll be sure to get back to you within 24 hours.

Warm Regards,
The GetSure Team