Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 July 2016

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare

Future of Health Care: Health Reform Alliance

9:00 am

Ms Cliona Loughnane:

I might take the easy question first. The figure of 77% for taxation funding of the health service comes from the recent ESRI report on universal health insurance, UHI. It is based on 2013 figures and states that 9% comes from private health insurance. That is the reason I indicated that less than 10% comes from private health insurance. The other 12% comes primarily from out-of-pocket payments. This, for example, involves people paying upfront for their general practitioner, GP.

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