James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will conclude. The figures I referred to are well above the 6% premia increase that is currently planned. The applications I have put into the system should not increase the overall cost of health insurance. It is about community rating and transferring the risk from the older and less well back to the young who are more well. That was always the way. It was the same when I was young and paying my insurance. I was subsidising older people. Community rating is accepted on all sides of the House.

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