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No panacea for health insurance costs

I can neither afford the 28 per cent increase in my quote nor the cost of a broker

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Tue Mar 31 2026 - 06:00 • 1 MIN READ

Sir,– Chris Coggins (Letters, 30th March) suggests the panacea for bewildering health insurance is the use of a broker. I can neither afford the 28 per cent increase in my quote nor the cost of a broker.

It seems therefore I’ll have no choice but to cough up and, like Oscar Wilde, I shall have to die beyond my means. – Yours, etc,

MICHAEL KEEGAN,

Booterstown,

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