Add to this the penalty of €800 per day for a trolly if you have the cheek to have health insurance, while the state will pay €80 per day for the exact same treatment if you have no health insurance.If they take off the tax relief then take off all the levies too... if they want private insurance to stand alone.
The Left in this country are off their rockersHospital consultants who currently work privately in public hospitals should be paid more in compensation, and rewarded better for elective work in the public sector, its draft report recommends.
The tax relief feels regressive in some ways
- it's funded in part by people who can't afford to avail of it.
- the people who can afford the most benefit the most.
I'd be ok with phasing it out slowly if need be - better not kill the industry outright.
My ideal world features really good public healthcare for 97% and amazing healthcare for the 3% wealthy enough to fund (by proxy) medical research.
What is happening in Ireland in relation to health insurance is very American in it's nature. If you can afford to pay for private health cover - or it is available as part of your remuneration package - that is great. If you cannot afford to pay for it society does not care.
IMHO the combination of levies, already constricted income tax relief on premiums, the veritable price gouging of insurers based on medical inflation as distinct from real world inflation and the sheer bad value that consumers get suggests a scenario more likely to drive consumers out of the private health insurance market. This all leaves me wondering what the hell is government policy on the broader issue of health insurance and health care provision.
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