This paper analyses the Irish private health insurance (PHI) market. It describes how PHI interacts with the public system, and assesses its contribution to equity, efficiency and responsiveness of the health system. The analysis identifies some of the factors affecting insurance market performance and its impact on the health system, including market characteristics, the regulatory and fiscal environment, health system organisation, and any actors’ incentives and behaviours. PHI plays a prominent role in Ireland. The health system is designed to offer comprehensive publicly funded health services to low-income groups, and universal public hospital coverage. Policies have encouraged the development of PHI to provide all individuals with a p...
Community rating restricts health insurers from varying premiums based on insurees’ risk profiles. I...
It is an interesting aspect of the current debate with regard to healthcare in developed countries t...
THESIS 11285Consumer choice of, and competition among, insurers is becoming a more common feature of...
Governments everywhere are under pressure to deliver service to the community in a situation where t...
Over the past decade or so the context in which Irelands complex mix of public and private health ca...
Governments often look to private health insurance (PHI) as a possible means of addressing some heal...
Private health insurance exists alongside to the statutory health system in most of the European co...
This paper tracks the development of the Irish private health insurance market, both in terms of its...
This paper tracks the development of the Irish private health insurance market, both in terms of its...
Despite universal access entitlements to the public healthcare system in Ireland, over half the popu...
The healthcare market in Ireland is facing a series of problems arising from the dual nature of the ...
This thesis explores the drivers of healthcare utilisation and healthcare costs among older people i...
Described by The Economist in 1988 as “easily the poorest country in rich north-west Europe”, Irelan...
Amicus are the sole Union representing staff in VHI. We are not at this point formally recognised to...
The financing of healthcare is the most fundamental mechanism of any healthcare system and, therefor...
Community rating restricts health insurers from varying premiums based on insurees’ risk profiles. I...
It is an interesting aspect of the current debate with regard to healthcare in developed countries t...
THESIS 11285Consumer choice of, and competition among, insurers is becoming a more common feature of...
Governments everywhere are under pressure to deliver service to the community in a situation where t...
Over the past decade or so the context in which Irelands complex mix of public and private health ca...
Governments often look to private health insurance (PHI) as a possible means of addressing some heal...
Private health insurance exists alongside to the statutory health system in most of the European co...
This paper tracks the development of the Irish private health insurance market, both in terms of its...
This paper tracks the development of the Irish private health insurance market, both in terms of its...
Despite universal access entitlements to the public healthcare system in Ireland, over half the popu...
The healthcare market in Ireland is facing a series of problems arising from the dual nature of the ...
This thesis explores the drivers of healthcare utilisation and healthcare costs among older people i...
Described by The Economist in 1988 as “easily the poorest country in rich north-west Europe”, Irelan...
Amicus are the sole Union representing staff in VHI. We are not at this point formally recognised to...
The financing of healthcare is the most fundamental mechanism of any healthcare system and, therefor...
Community rating restricts health insurers from varying premiums based on insurees’ risk profiles. I...
It is an interesting aspect of the current debate with regard to healthcare in developed countries t...
THESIS 11285Consumer choice of, and competition among, insurers is becoming a more common feature of...