Dáil debates
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed)
3:55 pm
Billy 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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