Dáil debates

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed)

 

3:55 pm

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

The Minister knows it would. The principle of community rating is for younger, healthier people to continually enter the health insurance market and cross-subsidise older people who need health services. That is an actuarial, statistical fact, or, in the Minister's language, an algorithmic progression.

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