When disaster strikes, one of the expenses that could be targeted for increase is your international health insurance. The reason for this is because the rate natural calamities are happening unexpectedly has risen to a staggering figure never before seen by insurance companies. Worldwide health insurance companies are worried, and you would be to, if you were in their position.
It happened after the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand. Rates went shooting up by as much as 29%. Unfortunately, many people agreed to pay the increase because the alternative to them at that time was to have no international travel health insurance. That would have been even more disastrous since the cost of medical care without insurance is staggering.