WILLEMSTAD - The rising healthcare costs and the falling number of customers is, according to Guardian Group, the reason that the premiums have been considerably increased this year.
Almost all private insurance companies raised health insurance premiums considerably in January.
According to Diego Fränkel, CEO of Guardian Group, more expensive hospital admissions in the Curaçao Medical Center (CMC) play a major role. A room in the third-class cost 340 guilders in Sehos and the first class had a rate of 700 guilders.
The price for a room in the CMC is set at more than 1500 guilders.
The new hospital has been digitized, modernized and equipped with new equipment with advanced technologies. This means an improvement in the health care on the island, because it benefits the recovery of the patients, but it also means that the costs have increased enormously.
Insurance company ENNIA states that at least 20 million extra guilders will be charged to the private insurers.
After all, CMC has presented a budget of 196 million, while the SVB only covers 176 million.