Why does my health insurance premiums increase?
Health Insurance premiums increase over a period due to the following reasons: 1) Change in Age Band: (Personal level) . Typically, premiums keep changing in a band of 5 years of age. Till 35 years, the premiums remain the same. At 36 years of age, it changes; at 41 years of age, it changes & so on. The age considered is the age of the eldest member of the family insured. 2) Medical Costs Inflation (Industry level) : the cost of treatments keeps increasing every year. The same treatment which costed 50,000/- a few years ago would be 1 lakh now. So even if the number of claims remain the same, the insurance company may have to settle more amount now, owing to inflation of costs. Hence the premiums also keep increasing to keep up with this rise in treatment costs / claims. Typically all insurance companies raise the premiums (one-by-one) once in a period of 5-7 years. 3) ...