Sir, – While our public health system struggles, the cost of private health insurance increases, again. Our health ministers need to realise the damage their levies are doing to both systems.The higher the price of private health insurance, demand for such reduces; the less demand, the lower the income to the State from the levies. This reduces public funding to provide public services and will result in higher taxes for everyone.
The Government should be incentivising people to procure private health rather than forcing people into a distressed public system; and balancing the levies so as to attract people back into private health. – Yours, etc,
JONATHAN WORMALD,
Strand Road,
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Sutton, Dublin 13.