117 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to large number of subscribers who are being forced out of private-voluntary health insurance as a result of increasing premiums in each of the past five years to date; if any studies have been done which might compare the extent to which private medicine is replacing the public sector in the context of the general provision of services throughout the country and in terms of absorbing the health budget; the extent to which bed and-or surgical and medical costs in the public sector are comparable with those in the private sector; the extent to which private health insurance premiums are affected by either; the extent to which the total number of hospital beds in both the public and the private sector has fluctuated over the past eight years; the extent to which the health insurance costs relative to each has developed in the same period; if the principle of community rated health insurance is being abandoned or replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29363/12]

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117 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to large number of subscribers who are being forced out of private-voluntary health insurance as a result of increasing premiums in each of the past five years to date; if any studies have been done which might compare the extent to which private medicine is replacing the public sector in the context of the general provision of services throughout the country and in terms of absorbing the health budget; the extent to which bed and-or surgical and medical costs in the public sector are comparable with those in the private sector; the extent to which private health insurance premiums are affected by either; the extent to which the total number of hospital beds in both the public and the private sector has fluctuated over the past eight years; the extent to which the health insurance costs relative to each has developed in the same period; if the principle of community rated health insurance is being abandoned or replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29363/12]

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1. 19 June 2012

   Health Insurance

   117 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to large number of subscribers who are being forced out of private-voluntary health insurance as a result of increasing premiums in each of the past five years to date; if any studies have been done which might compare the extent to which private medicine is replacing the public sector in the context of the general provision of services throughout the country and in terms of absorbing the health budget; the extent to which bed and-or surgical and medical costs in the public sector are comparable with those in the private sector; the extent to which private health insurance premiums are affected by either; the extent to which the total number of hospital beds in both the public and the private sector has fluctuated over the past eight years; the extent to which the health insurance costs relative to each has developed in the same period; if the principle of community rated health insurance is being abandoned or replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29363/12]

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