The premiums of the personal health care are still increasing. This insurance becomes really expensive. This results in the fact that half the people do not have a health insurance. The Flemish political party, N-VA wants to introduce a supplementary health insurance which should cover all medical care including the price of a double hospital room.
The extra health insurance means that the private health insurance should not be taken anymore unless a person wants more luxury than a double room. With the help of the Flemish government, the cost-price for adults would be about 100 euro.
This is a good proposal of the N-VA because people are looking for several opportunities to economize due to the economic crisis. If this idea should become reality people can cancel their private health insurance, which cost a lot. In this way they can use the money for something else.
On the other hand this proposal is no good news for the insurers and the insurance companies. They will lose a lot of their health insurance clients. The income of the insurers will probably decrease and maybe they will increase the premiums of other insurances to compensate their losses.
I think that all the political parties should come together and investigate all the benefits and disadvantages for all the parties involved and come to a solution to encourage people to take a health insurance somehow.
Sofie De Cooman
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Belgie/article/detail/791762/2009/03/24/N-VA-pleit-voor-Vlaamse-aanvullende-zorgverzekering.dhtml
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