Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Insurance Sector: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Liam Sloyan:

Other voluntary markets have a system called lifetime community rating whereby if someone takes out health insurance later in life they pay more. Effectively, a 60 year old person who took out health insurance at 25 pays the same as a 25 year old but a 60 year old who took out health insurance at 55 would pay more to allow for the fact that he or she did not make the contributions when he or she was younger.