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private medical insurance is becoming unaffordable as cost of premiums increases further

Rising private medical insurance (PMI) premiums pose a bigger threat to the sector than future improvements to the NHS, speakers at Laing & Buisson's annual private healthcare insurance conference have claimed. Opening the debate, Philip Blackburn, market analyst at Laing & Buisson, said the only reason the PMI market has continued to grow is down to increases in average cost, with the same customers paying more and more for their premiums, rather than any actual growth in new business. Commenting on this, Fergus Kee, managing director of Bupa Insurance, said delivering affordable healt...