Varadkar closes health cover loophole
Adopted children now have the same automatic entitlement to private health insurance
as biological children after Minister for Health Leo Varadkar signed an amendment to
existing legislation.
Legislation governing the private health insurance sector forces insurers to accept
children onto their parents’ health insurance policies automatically, once they
are added soon after the birth.
But there was a legal loophole that allowed health insurers to require parents of
adopted children to wait for ...