Health insurance cost drops slightly as more enter market

There was a slight decrease in average private health insurance premiums last year, it has emerged.

Average premium levels fell by 2.2% — from €1,200 per person in 2014, to €1,173 at the end of March 2015, according to figures from the Health Insurance Authority.

There were 2.1m people insured with in-patient health insurance plans at the end of March this year — an increase of 95,000 over the past 12 months.