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A Report to the Minister for Health
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CONTENTS TABLE OF FIGURES _________
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CONSUMER ATTITUDES TO SWITCHING ___
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIO
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As a result it does not have to sat
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Recommendation 7 The Minister for H
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indicates that consumers of PHI hav
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Recommendation 13 The Minister for
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is quite unclear, so far as the Aut
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1.4 For the next number of months t
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other insurers were to enter the ma
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2.6 Private health insurance (PHI)
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2.17 Open enrolment and lifetime co
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• 2001: The Health Insurance Auth
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Figure 2: Annual Change in PHI memb
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of medical inflation and the higher
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VIVAS Health is rising steadily. In
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• Table 1 below shows the annual
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Figure 6: PHI Products BUPA Ireland
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• Work-based group schemes where
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from year to year and also during t
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3. DEFINING THE PRIVATE HEALTH INSU
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Figure 7: Key features of Related H
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price increase unprofitable by a hy
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4.6 Aspects of the exemption from i
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and quarterly management accounts t
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Table 4: Regulation of PHI Firms 48
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4.31 This is a positive step. Just
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obliges Vhi Healthcare to seek appr
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4.41 In the regulatory approval pro
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4.50 However, the Authority is clea
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Unfunded Lifetime Community Rating
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President of the Society of Actuari
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− The main other deterrent at pre
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o The former members of the Advisor
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materially affected by any seasonal
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It may also be noted that the propo
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4.94 There are 37 health insurers i
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Interviews with Possible New Entran
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have shown that new sales and switc
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not binding on incumbents and no in
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5.33 In this context Vhi Healthcare
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5.44 As the former incumbent monopo
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5.52 Vhi Healthcare’s first mover
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• Psychological costs 6.5 Transac
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18-24 9% 13% 25-34 34% 19% 35-44 31
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6.24 The provision of renewal notic
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The HIA publishes on its website a
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Recommendation 10 Following consult
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Recommendation 11 The insurance com
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