Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2003

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2003 would update the rules governing private health insurance and the Health Insurance Authority. It would protect the Authority from damages claims for actions taken honestly in carrying out its duties, adjust procedures for sharing costs between insurers, and stop companies linked to existing insurers from receiving special exemptions intended to encourage genuinely new market entrants. It would also allow the Health Minister, with the Finance Minister’s agreement, to cancel some or all of the Authority’s €508,000 start-up debt.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make provision in relation to the liability of the Health Insurance Authority in respect of the performance by it of its functions; to make provision in relation to risk equalisation schemes and in relation to limited exemptions from certain provisions of such schemes; to amend the Health Insurance Act 1994 and the Defamation Act 1961; and to provide for matters connected therewith

Last updated 16 April 2018