{"id":206777,"date":"2025-11-29T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:43:18","slug":"charlie-weston-why-health-insurers-levy-complaint-could-have-huge-implications-for-older-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/206777\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Weston: Why health insurer\u2019s levy complaint could have huge implications for older people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Firm is pushing EU to change rules that keep premium cost down for vulnerable\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The overhaul could see rising fees for certain demographics. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/60b8332b-9771-451b-b788-5b206f1117fe.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The overhaul could see rising fees for certain demographics. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A move by new insurance provider Level Health to challenge a key rule around health insurance provision could have huge implications for older people and those with complex health conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Aviva Insurance-backed Level Health has filed a complaint with the European Commission over the subsidy scheme that means that everyone, regardless of their health status and other risk factors, can buy the same health insurance policy at the same price. It is known as risk equalisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firm is pushing EU to change rules that keep premium cost down for vulnerable The overhaul could see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[36394,79,2107,18,4893,19,17,496,2108],"class_list":{"0":"post-206777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-aviva","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-charlie-weston","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-laya-healthcare","16":"tag-money-experts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115633992931894448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}