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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Mr. Clancy has just mentioned hotel-type cover. What would he change in that regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I apologise to the witnesses for the lack of members, but some of them are speaking in the Dáil or are dealing with constituency matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Would it be possible to provide that information to the committee so that it can be distributed to members?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Can insurers not charge per procedure in a public hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Does that mean that in terms of clinical auditing, insurers challenge the costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: How robust is the questioning and challenging of the costs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: What happens if I am a patient in hospital and the hospital authorities decide to do an ECG, a stress test and something else and after a plethora of tests, the bill comes back at X amount and half the tests were not needed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: My comment is not directed at Mr. O'Dwyer specifically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: My question was directed at all of the health providers rather than just the VHI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will come back to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Just ask questions, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank all the delegates for their presentations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: When asking questions, I ask members to identify the company they are addressing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Mr. Brian Dunne, who is chairman of Aviva Health.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I call Mr. Jim Dowdall, who is the CEO of GloHealth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We are now in public session. I remind members, witnesses and people in the gallery to turn off their mobile telephones. I apologise for keeping people waiting. We had a very lengthy discussion on the EU directive. With regard to our discussion in private session on COM (2012) 788, a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We will now discuss the matter of health insurance. I welcome representatives of the health insurance providers and I apologise to them for the delay. We did not expect to spend so long discussing an EU policy directive on tobacco. I hope they understand it was an important issue and we had to seek clarification on it. I welcome Mr. John O'Dwyer and Mr. Declan Moran from VHI, Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Except the 40g.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Someone’s telephone is ringing.