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Health Insurance Advice - What are the best plans?
11 April 2015
The Irish Farmers Journal gives some great tips on the best deals and answers some key questions around Lifetime Community Rating.
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The Irish Farmers Journal gives some great tips on the best deals and answers some key questions around Lifetime Community Rating.
Lifetime Community Rating (LCR) - All you need to know
10 March 2015
All your questions answered regarding LCR including information on the best deals in the market.
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All your questions answered regarding LCR including information on the best deals in the market.
Health Ins. Price War - New Low-Cost Plans
24 February 2015
Whether you're looking to avoid the age loadings or simply find the lowest cost cover on the market, you need to consider these new options - Heallth Insurance may never by this cheap again!!
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Whether you're looking to avoid the age loadings or simply find the lowest cost cover on the market, you need to consider these new options - Heallth Insurance may never by this cheap again!!
Medical Cash Plans - Irish Independent
26 September 2014
Are you thinking of cancelling your health insurance or maybe you're just looking to cover your everyday medical costs. Medical Cash Plans offer excellent cover for a whole range of routine medical expenses including Dental, Optical, GP, Physiotherapy, Consultant Fees and many more. They also give you a cash grant for each day you're in hospital which can be used to cover the public hospital charges or any excess in a private hospital. Download the article for more details.
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Are you thinking of cancelling your health insurance or maybe you're just looking to cover your everyday medical costs. Medical Cash Plans offer excellent cover for a whole range of routine medical expenses including Dental, Optical, GP, Physiotherapy, Consultant Fees and many more. They also give you a cash grant for each day you're in hospital which can be used to cover the public hospital charges or any excess in a private hospital. Download the article for more details.
How to pick best lower-cost health policy for your family
16 July 2014
Families can be left hoping their policies will be enough when the time comes - but there are alternatives, says Personal Finance Editor Charlie Weston. Select from the documents below to read the full articles.
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Families can be left hoping their policies will be enough when the time comes - but there are alternatives, says Personal Finance Editor Charlie Weston. Select from the documents below to read the full articles.
Clock ticks on healthcover
13 July 2014
In the field of health insurance, old people need young people. And right now in Ireland, as with the global pensions industry, there aren't enough of the latter to support the former. In both pensions and health insurance, there are far more old people drawing down money than there are young people putting in money. Here in Ireland, this has led to a distorted health insurance system, because the younger generation has taken something of a gamble since the economic crash: spending the money t
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In the field of health insurance, old people need young people. And right now in Ireland, as with the global pensions industry, there aren't enough of the latter to support the former. In both pensions and health insurance, there are far more old people drawing down money than there are young people putting in money. Here in Ireland, this has led to a distorted health insurance system, because the younger generation has taken something of a gamble since the economic crash: spending the money t
Government health insurance plan will shut out 1.9 million
13 July 2014
As many as 1.9 million people are at risk of being permanently frozen out of health insurance, thanks to the government's new lifetime community rating system, insurance industry experts have warned. The government's plans - which are designed to bring young policy holders back into the market, rebalancing the demographic skew - would see a 2 per cent annual loading on top of the price of health insurance for anyone who takes out a policy for the first time after the age of 34. People who used
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As many as 1.9 million people are at risk of being permanently frozen out of health insurance, thanks to the government's new lifetime community rating system, insurance industry experts have warned. The government's plans - which are designed to bring young policy holders back into the market, rebalancing the demographic skew - would see a 2 per cent annual loading on top of the price of health insurance for anyone who takes out a policy for the first time after the age of 34. People who used
Charlie Weston PMI Special Offers
1 July 2014
Current Special Offers on Private Health Insurance July 14 – Summary VHI Healthcare ½ price on 61 plans for children and student dependents from 01.07.14: (This includes popular plans such as One+ Plan, One Plan 250, Parent & Kids Excess, Health Plus Extra, Company Plan) The One+ Plan is worth considering as this covers public and private hospitals (€125 excess on all admissions to private hospitals)and will cost €127 per child and €181 per student. A famil
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Current Special Offers on Private Health Insurance July 14 – Summary VHI Healthcare ½ price on 61 plans for children and student dependents from 01.07.14: (This includes popular plans such as One+ Plan, One Plan 250, Parent & Kids Excess, Health Plus Extra, Company Plan) The One+ Plan is worth considering as this covers public and private hospitals (€125 excess on all admissions to private hospitals)and will cost €127 per child and €181 per student. A famil
Charlie Weson coverage of HIA stats
18 June 2014
PRESSURE on the public hospital system is set to intensify after new figures showed thousands more people have dropped their health insurance. Close to 50,000 people ditched their private health insurance last year, a move that will heap further pressure on Health Minister James Reilly. This is because more people will be forced to use already under-pressure public hospitals. Only this week, the European Commission again questioned overspending on the public health budget. The new figures sh
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PRESSURE on the public hospital system is set to intensify after new figures showed thousands more people have dropped their health insurance. Close to 50,000 people ditched their private health insurance last year, a move that will heap further pressure on Health Minister James Reilly. This is because more people will be forced to use already under-pressure public hospitals. Only this week, the European Commission again questioned overspending on the public health budget. The new figures sh
