Poles more and more often willing to pay for health insurance out of their pockets

After the third quarter of 2021, the value of the gross written premium for private health insurance exceeded PLN 760 million. This is a small expense compared to the cost of privately paid medical services by patients, which in 2020 amounted to PLN 44 billion. The number of Poles using private medical packages increased by 17 percent y/y, to which the pandemic also contributed significantly. Health has already been one of the main concerns of Polish respondents, and last year the share of people for whom the greatest concern is the lack of access to medical services increased by 5 percentage points and exceeded 70 percent.

"The value of the health insurance market in Poland in 2021 will exceed PLN 1 billion. We are developing very quickly and this development will certainly continue in the coming years. It is enough to look at how much, as Poles, we spend from our pockets on private medical consultations and diagnostic tests," Marcin Rybarczyk, head of the Health Insurance Department of Compensa TU SA Vienna Insurance Group, said.

After the third quarter of 2021, nearly 3.7 million Poles had private health insurance, i.e. almost every fourth employee. It's about 17 percent more than a year earlier, according to the report of the Polish Insurance Association (PIU).

(Newseria)