Should Sports Personalities be Insured?
I’m not so certain about this question, because it could mean a few different things, like should a player have health insurance, death insurance or personal insurance on them selves incase of injury. So I will deal with each part of the insurance.
Health Insurance
I know in our public school’s when my children want to play any sport they send home with the child a paper asking you to fill out what type of health insurance you have on your child. So I’m sure in all professional sports they give the players that same type of health insurance papers to fill out. This is very important to have, and all players should have some sort of health insurance incase of any injury that occurs on the filed during a game, or even off the field. If a player has this health insurance then they know they will be able to get medical help when they are hurt, or sick.
Death Insurance
In our local public schools we don’t have this insurance in sports, but I believe there should be some sort of insurance in any Pro sport. I know in football things can get pretty bad when you are on the field. I have seen so many men getting hurt to the point that they are hospitalized. Some even went into coma. You never know what can happen to you when you are playing any sports, so if you are a professional I would hope that you would have some sort of Death insurance incase you die while you are playing the game.
Personal Insurance
Lots of professional players are worth a lot of money, I am not sure, but I believe that the NFL players are worth more then most sports. (Don’t quote me on that though). I would say they should have some sort of insurance that gives them peace and mind incase for some odd reason they are unable to keep playing the game for reason’s like two many concussions. They need to protect themselves, cause most players rely upon their sport for the sole income in their households. If you can’t play this sport any more then how will you earn money? I know I have heard many people who play the piano actually have their fingers insured incase they lost one of them reason being is because their fingers are their bread and butter when it comes to bringing home the bacon.
So there are my 3 reasons of insurance for sports and I hope that all the players of any sport has all 3 of those types of insurance.