Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Insurance Levy: Discussion

1:05 pm

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The difficulty we have is that no advanced plan is now available. Even if health insurers do not submit new plans before 31 March 2013, there will be no non-advanced plans. What will have to happen is a stripping of benefits from plans that are already in place. Correct me if I am wrong. That can only mean that people who can barely afford health insurance will have to pay themselves for the benefits that previously would have been covered. Am I right or wrong?

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