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

It is happening as we speak. The projection is that as young people continue to opt out of private health insurance, the burden will fall on fewer numbers of customers and it will cost them more. One does not have to be an actuary or expert in logarithmic expressions to realise that private health insurance is becoming unaffordable. The full-cost of private beds in public hospitals is one area and the levy is another. The Minister has refused to take on board any of the recommendations of the HIA. He dismissed them all.

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