Ref: Irish Independent Article:
Revealed: Public hospital patients with insurance face double charge for same care
Hello,
If my understanding of the situation discussed in the above article is accurate, then hospital staff are insisting on getting this waiver form signed by people before they know what care or facilities they will get - hence waiving their right to be treated as a public patient, despite the fact that this may then be the level of care and facilities provided.
Obviously the financial impact this practice is having on the private insurers and by extension, everyone who pays for private health insurance, cannot simply be ignored.
At the very least, what the hospitals are doing is managing the situation incorrectly, while at the other end of the spectrum, it's borderline fraud.
Am I the only one who is absolutely furious about this, now that it's been made very clear to me that one of the reasons my annual premium keeps getting increased is to pay for this "rip off" by the hospitals ?
How do we avoid this (or better yet, bring the practice to a swift and abrupt end) ?
Revealed: Public hospital patients with insurance face double charge for same care
Hello,
If my understanding of the situation discussed in the above article is accurate, then hospital staff are insisting on getting this waiver form signed by people before they know what care or facilities they will get - hence waiving their right to be treated as a public patient, despite the fact that this may then be the level of care and facilities provided.
Obviously the financial impact this practice is having on the private insurers and by extension, everyone who pays for private health insurance, cannot simply be ignored.
At the very least, what the hospitals are doing is managing the situation incorrectly, while at the other end of the spectrum, it's borderline fraud.
Am I the only one who is absolutely furious about this, now that it's been made very clear to me that one of the reasons my annual premium keeps getting increased is to pay for this "rip off" by the hospitals ?
How do we avoid this (or better yet, bring the practice to a swift and abrupt end) ?
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