10-01-2016, 05:55 PM
I went to Kaiser's website, and the only Medigap plan now offered for the Big Island costs $194/mo vs. $63/mo for the plan they are dropping. That's a 307% increase if one wants to stay with Kaiser. The "new" plan looks a whole lot like the old one with only a few marginally improved benefits. Feels a lot like bait and switch to my neighbors who switched to Kaiser in he past few years after not being able to find providers otherwise.