{"id":25877,"date":"2026-04-23T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25877"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:57:06","slug":"medigap-premiums-leap-and-consumers-have-few-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25877","title":{"rendered":"Medigap Premiums Leap, and Consumers Have Few Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After decades of selling insurance, Illinois-based broker John Jaggi had never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 80 of his customers who were enrolled in the same Medicare supplemental plan from the insurer Chubb got hit last August with a 45% increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn my 49 years of doing biz as a broker, I\u2019ve never seen a premium increase be effective immediately on everyone, instead of on their policy anniversary,\u201d said Jaggi, whose brokerage scrambled to find more affordable options for clients. The policies pick up deductibles and other costs not covered in traditional Medicare, and without one there is no upper limit on how much a consumer might owe each year. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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