{"id":9620,"date":"2014-05-26T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=9620"},"modified":"2025-04-08T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:22:56","slug":"are-rising-medical-costs-getting-you-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/are-rising-medical-costs-getting-you-down","title":{"rendered":"Are Rising Medical Costs Getting You Down? [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sickness can affect more than your health. It can have an impact on your finances, too. As the nation move towards high income nation, and as medicine becomes more advance, so does the price.<\/p>\n<p>Some people consider getting medical treatment a luxury they can ill afford. With medical inflation hot on our heels, it is inevitable that we have to consider different options to protect ourselves in the event of illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of what we can expect our medical cost to be like in 2020, when we eventually become a high income nation, and how health insurance can be your only protection from bankruptcy due to medical cost. Protect your wallet and your loved ones!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aia.net.my\/products\/a-plusgennext?cmpid=banner-my-0035-imoney-gen-gennext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9427\" src=\"\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/iMoney-banner_rev1.jpg\" alt=\"iMoney-banner_rev1\" width=\"600\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/iMoney-banner_rev1.jpg 600w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/iMoney-banner_rev1-300x62.jpg 300w, \/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/iMoney-banner_rev1-150x31.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/info-yolo2-v6-2.png\" alt=\"info-yolo#2 v6-2\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people consider getting medical treatment a luxury they can ill afford. Protect yourself and your loved ones with health insurance protection &#8212; and save money!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,133,255,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographic","category-insurance","category-medical-insurance","category-sponsored"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are Rising Medical Costs Getting You Down? | iMoney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Medical inflation has resulted in higher medical cost. 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