Over the past year, my Aetna health Insurance premiums have gone up three times.  Not because I or my wife incurred any illness or started taking new prescriptions.  They just went up. 

Aetna gave several reasons - Our age (turning 64), etc.  Everytime this happened, I got on the phone and lowered our benefits so that the premium could stay around $650 monthly...and the coverage got pretty skinny as time went on.  Recently, we moved 34 miles in preparation for retirement.  When I submitted a change of address to Aetna, they raised our premiums by $150 monthly due to our having moved to a "new servicing area."

This is total bulls#*t!  What I have concluded is that health insurance companies blatantly squeeze Baby Boomers on the premium during the last year they have them on the hook before Medicare kicks in.  An Aetna rep I talked to more or less confirmed this.  They are shameless about it.

And they have no fear of repercussions because they own the Congress.  Wouldn't it be great if our representatives in Washington had to endure the same health insurance abuse we do instead of having privileged coverage?  That's the only way we'll ever see reform among these monopolistic insurers.

Thoughts anyone?