HIA: Consumers must look twice at premiums

CONSUMERS must ‘start looking twice’ at their health insurance premiums from now on to get the best value for money.

That’s the advice from the Health Insurance Authority following the decision by Aviva to increase health insurance premium rates by 14% from March.

Aviva’s price hike comes just weeks after the VHI premium increases were announced, a move that caused a 10-fold increase in calls to the HIA and a 20-fold increase in hits on its website, according to a HIA spokesperson.