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Wednesday 22 March 2023 Dublin: 9°C

# GloHealth

All time
# Stampede
102 people signed up for health insurance EVERY HOUR in April
With the 30 April looming, Irish people bit the bullet en masse and signed on the dotted line.
# Game changer?
'Pay as you go' health insurance set to hit the market
The plan will give people the ability to upgrade their hospital care at the time of need.
# Health Insurance
Health insurance levy will cost customers "up to 15 per cent"
Already 250,000 people have cancelled policies and analysts don’t believe that new levy increases will change that.
# Cancer
Health insurance company under fire for not offering cancer drug
Senator Professor John Crown said that the decision by GloHealth means private patients are having to be put into public health care.
# Health Insurance
Another 21,000 people stopped their private health insurance in Q1
45.3 per cent of the population is now covered by private insurance – down from a peak of 50.9 per cent.
# Health Insurance
Numbers with private health insurance fall by 64,000 in 2012
Just under 2.1 million were covered by private policies at the end of 2012, a fall of nearly 3 per cent over the year.
# Health Insurance
Health insurers call for levy to be scrapped for children's policies
Representatives from all four health insurers told an Oireachtas committee it could help to save a struggling industry.
# Competition
New health insurer to create jobs and competition
GloHealth is Ireland’s fourth health insurer.