Changing medication

The lifetime community rating system is the latest change in a health insurance market where providers have always had to evolve to survive

In the weeks ahead, the health insurance market will be preparing for a major shake-up with the introduction of new rules that penalise those who delay entering the market until they are older.

The government’s new lifetime community rating system, which aims to bring younger customers back into the health insurance market, will mean that, from May 1, higher charges will apply to people who are 35 or more when they first take ...