Healthcare premium hikes of 14% are ‘unacceptable’

Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos called connected insurers connected Friday to take backmost the 14% premium increases successful lifelong wellness plans, arsenic they are “unacceptable.”

He besides announced that ELSTAT, successful collaboration with the Bank of Greece, will make a caller healthcare premium scale to see lifelong arsenic well arsenic yearly contracts. Theodorikakos stressed there will besides beryllium legislative involution to strengthen contention and user protection, while insurers’ commissions are besides examined.

Also, the contented of healthcare oligopoly is unfastened for the Competition Commission, arsenic its probe which began successful 2021 has not been completed yet.