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It will take more than stagnant demand to kill off the healthcare cash plan. The resilient market, which was big in the 1960s, has endured worse and lived to tell the tale, writes Peter Madigan Click here to download pdf

The healthcare cash plan seems like an obsolete hangover from a bygone age. The idea of paying into a scheme that specifically pays the cost of dental, optical and other outpatient treatments was born in an earlier time, in an age before the advent of a more comprehensive holistic State healthcare service. Nevertheless, the cash plan market lives on and even if it is not thriving, it shows no signs of ebbing away, despite the fact that it appears to be under the radar of the majority of intermediaries. According to data from the Laing and Buisson Health Care Cover Report, there were an e...

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