Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 147: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received advice in the past regarding other means of introducing risk equalisation which would involve every company having the same proportion of high risk patients; and if in her view this would be a fairer system and easier to administer. [6295/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Variations on the proposal suggested by the Deputy have been made in the past. However they have been dismissed on the grounds that they are impractical given the requirement for open enrolment in the Irish health insurance regulatory framework.