I have found out that now I am one of many people who have a pacemaker, things have got expensive. Living in the UK my visits to the hospital are free, thanks to the wonderful thing that the NHS is (God only knows how much I would have had to pay if I lived in the US). So, thinking I could now start learning to drive again, I thought I would check how much insurance would cost me.
Well, after putting our details into one of those price comparison sites with me as a named driver my husband's insurance would jump from around £250 to a whopping £800+ and that is if I have passed. If I went on as a provisional driver it was well over £1700! If I didn't mention the pacemaker it dropped to around a nice £550.
However, I'm not sure that a driving instructor's insurance would cover me anyway.
Also, if I go on holiday abroad I need insurance for that too but again it goes through the roof for a person with a pacemaker and I don't see why. I have my pacemaker to stop me collapsing. I was more of a risk before having the PM than I am now.
I also have to tell any organisation, who I belong to, that needs public liability insurance for events as this will make their insurance go up and all to cover me! But I am probably the only one in a group that will not have any problems as my heart rate is kept at a nice 60bpm.
Then there is life insurance. I am lucky that I already have some but if I didn't that would have gone up too.
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