{"id":15253,"date":"2017-03-21T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:07:22","slug":"health-insurance-continues-to-grow-in-spain-11-million-policyholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/el-seguro-de-salud-sigue-creciendo-en-espana-11-millones-de-asegurados\/","title":{"rendered":"Health insurance continues to grow in Spain (11 million insured)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The figure is resounding: a <strong>20% of the population in Spain<\/strong> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/location\/zaragoza\/health-insurance-3\/\">private health insurance<\/a>. According to recent data from ICEA (Institute of statistics of the insurance sector in our country), it is one of the fastest growing insurance branches that have barely noticed the crisis. Today we analyse the reasons that have led to this.<\/p>\n<h2>Figures from the private healthcare sector<\/h2>\n<p>Indeed, a January study shows the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7,975 million euros billed by health insurance companies in Spain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Growth<\/strong> annual premiums paid of more than 4%<\/li>\n<li>Just under 70% of policyholders are individuals, compared to just over 30% for groups (the latter has grown by nearly 7% in 2016).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Specifically, we are <strong>11.14 million insured <\/strong>in our country, which represents a growth of more than 3%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we said at the beginning, this is more than 20% of Spanish citizens.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3720\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/crecimiento-seguro-salud.jpg\" alt=\"Health insurance and the increase in the number of policyholders\" width=\"901\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Reasons for taking out a private health insurance policy<\/h2>\n<p>A CIS barometer from the beginning of the year reflects some symptoms of how Spanish citizens perceive public health care:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This is the third biggest problem affecting them (only behind unemployment and the economy; even ahead of corruption).<\/li>\n<li>Health is becoming more and more of a priority, as is self-care and taking care of oneself in general.<\/li>\n<li>There is a slow but steady deterioration in public health care (its facilities, restrictions on free medicines and avoidance of certain costly tests).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span id=\"Aumento_del_uso_y_demanda_de_los_seguros_de_salud\" class=\"ez-toc-section\">Increasing use of and demand for health insurance<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>According to the most recent data provided by the\u00a0<em>Institute for the Development and Integration of Healthcare (IDIS)<\/em>, the first time the barrier of the\u00a0<strong>30% of private health expenditure, as a proportion of the total.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, 28,558 million euros were spent in 2014 on private healthcare. This represents about 3% of Spanish GDP. Over a period of 10 years, it has increased by 8,000 million, i.e. 40% (an average of 4% per year).<\/p>\n<h2>Public and private, complementary and dependent health care<\/h2>\n<p>Despite what it may seem, we always see health insurance as a necessary complement to public health care, which is the basis on which most efforts for improvement should be focused.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone agrees that both options are complementary and, at the same time, dependent on each other.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public health care could not accommodate all the services provided by private health care.<\/li>\n<li>In the same way, private health care could not cover all the costs borne by public health care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Health insurance company executives are adamant that <strong>the public health service is of high quality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spain's public health system is one of the best in the world, but its <strong>waiting lists are getting longer and longer. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>If we add to this the fact that<\/strong>\u00a0there are restrictions on public spending, the citizen decides to take out health insurance in the face of such problems.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like us to offer you the <strong>best health insurance<\/strong> that suits your needs, contact us and choose from the leading health insurance companies in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you want to know the main ones <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/the-four-essential-rules-for-taking-out-my-health-insurance-policy\/\">guidelines for choosing health insurance<\/a> that meets your requirements, we can help you with this link.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheaper health insurance and waiting lists in the public health system have led to an increase in the number of people taking out health insurance.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,152],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-15253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-empresas","category-particulares","category-profesionales","tag-salud"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}