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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...to pay would still require some level of rationing. All health services have some level of rationing, some level of waiting lists or some level of exclusion criteria because certain interventions are not cost effective. Are we really suggesting to people that they must accept that they cannot use their own money on their own health? I do not agree with that. In a free society if people...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Olivia Mitchell: ...health insurance customers, and its impact on competition generally. I understand that the Health Insurance Authority, whose job is to advise on changes required to the scheme, is more than aware of the gravity and implications of its task, and I am sure it does everything possible to minimise costs, but the truth is that once someone starts to interfere in any market, no matter how...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

John Halligan: If the public needed evidence that we are further than ever away from the universal single-tiered health service promised by the Government parties ahead of the last election, which guaranteed "access based on need not income", it need only read this Bill. The Bill promotes what the Government sees as a cost-effective private health insurance market without moving to a clear timetable for...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Thomas Pringle: Today we are witnessing yet another piece of legislation which seeks to further preserve the private health insurance industry. I am opposed to the Bill because I am opposed to the special protection afforded to private health insurance companies which profit off the backs of citizens in this country. The Government’s priority has never been to establish access to health care based...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Michelle Mulherin: ...will not pursue it. This is about taking stock and it is a practical and reasonable position to take. All the while, the Minister has confirmed his commitment to equalising universal health care, thus bringing a two-tier system to an end. However, as well all know, this will not happen overnight. It is not like declaring war. One cannot declare universal health care; it is something...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle. I still contend, even if, as the Minister is suggesting, they are going on strike for better pay, what they are looking for would still leave them earning considerably less than what consultants are getting here. If we add in what the consultants are getting in private practice, given they are paid by the public purse and, then, as I mentioned, get €400...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

James Bannon: ...pressure off the services at the Midland Regional Hospital if this were to happen. Hopefully, the Minister will have news on that in the not too distant future. The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015 is important legislation as it seeks to ensure that our older citizens and people with illnesses can afford health insurance and are not discriminated against by insurance companies in...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I was told it was €70,000, but let us see the figures. The ESRI says in its report that the cost of universal health insurance systems, regardless of where they are, is more expensive than systems of universal health care such as a national health service of the type we are proposing. However, it would appear that in Britain, even with any extras there might be, consultants are...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...rating and all the other very technical and complex stuff contained in the Bill and which revolve around the private health insurance system. However, the pain I get in my head is minor compared to the pain and hardship felt by people who have to wait for hours, if not days, on trolleys. It is minor compared to that suffered by people who are waiting in chronic pain for more than two to...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Séamus Healy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015. The Bill raises the question of equity of access to health services in this country. We currently have a two-tier health system where ability to pay is key to timely access to services but what we need is a system based on medical need and which is free at the point of delivery. That concept is becoming more...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Dutch introduced their model of private-public health care, with private insurance companies competing to access public health services in 2006. By 2011 the cost of an ever reducing basket of services had increased by almost 10%, with the cost of unincluded and uncovered services increasing by 50%. Mr. Dutrée raised the prospect of health care costs in the Netherlands doubling over...