Sir, - As a subscriber to the VHI since its inception, I wish to protest strongly about the proposed increase of six per cent in premiums. This increase is roughly three times the current rate of inflation, and it certainly has not been justified to me.
In fact, I have heard nothing from the VHI, which has significantly chosen the month of August to make its unwelcome announcement. I feel the subscribers are being treated in a cavalier fashion and that it is high time those who are paying the piper should, at the very least, be informed of what tune is being played, and why.
Sadly, the reality seems to be that the subscribers have no say and that they are regarded by the VHI as lambs to be led to the slaughter, or as cows to be milked as often as possible. - Yours, etc.,
Silchester Park, Glenageary,
Co Dublin.