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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