Dermot Goode

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271 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The Claire Byrne Show · Less people have health insurance as prices rise · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

They're already putting off decisions to join.

And I think when they see more increases coming through, a lot of them will just decide, look, health insurance just isn't for them right now.

And that's just bad for the overall market.

So I think also there's other things that the Health Insurance Authority, and I'm sure they're looking at these, but like,

We have a very complicated minimum benefit legislation.

It's why we all have maternity cover and fertility cover and psychiatric cover.

And I do think the regulator needs to look at those minimum benefits, because if those rules were relaxed somewhat or reduced, it would mean that the insurance companies may now have more scope to put in lower cost product into the market that might appeal to those younger members.

So I just think there is an overhaul required.

But right now,

You know, in terms of the warning note, the data now supports with the fact that I think we're just arrived at that tipping point.

And we could see ourselves in six, nine months time looking at a shrinking market, which is not in anybody's best interest.

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