Bangalore: Does your health insurance provide you enough coverage against the rising cost of treatment and medications or should you go for health insurance with a higher coverage? If your health cover is around 5 lakh or 10 then it may not stand sufficient during a medical emergency. And the worse, you may also have to dig up your saving fund to meet financial requirement for treating a critical illness. Hence, Economic Times has explained why you should go for a high health insurance?

At present the medical costs are more than you can imagine. In case of organ transplantation or a cancer treatment, the medical costs rages from 20 – 40 lakh, which is a lot more than what your health insurance covers. This can be a major reason to consider a high health insurance.

Religare Health has recently launched Care, a health insurance policy which provides sum insured of up to 60 lakh, the highest offered on any health insurance product in India. While ICICI Lombard and Max Bupa Health Insurance are offering health covers up to 50 lakh.