{"id":291326,"date":"2026-01-18T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/291326\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:26:20","slug":"irish-life-boss-cant-answer-the-big-question-when-will-wave-of-health-insurance-hikes-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/291326\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Life boss can\u2019t answer the big question: when will wave of health insurance hikes end?"},"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\">Ann Marie Nestor says younger clients and corporate customers are needed for the sector to survive\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ann Marie Nestor, MD of Irish Life Health. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Irish Life Health 7.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)\">Ann Marie Nestor, MD of Irish Life Health. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">Ann Marie Nestor has a lot to say about the state of Ireland\u2019s health insurance market and the problems it faces.<\/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)\">From the structural issues threatening the sector with a growing affordability crisis, to the potential of a European challenge should the State not implement badly-needed reform, the new managing director of Irish Life Health (ILH) is ready to engage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann Marie Nestor says younger clients and corporate customers are needed for the sector to survive Ann Marie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,3496,18,33201,493,19,17,13682],"class_list":{"0":"post-291326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-department-of-health","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","12":"tag-health-insurance","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-irish-life"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115917985190565894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291326","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=291326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}