| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 17/04/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 92 |
| Copyright: Other |
Minister slams medical cover
CONSUMER affairs minister Kim Howells has attacked travel insurance companies over the haphazard way they decide on which medical conditions to provide cover for.During a recent House of Commons debate on the topic, the minister said: “The whole question of somebody actually sitting down and deciding, for example, that influenza is a worthy complaint, even though it has perhaps got a higher chance of causing somebody to not go on holiday than perhaps HIV, is a very strange decision.”
Howells added that such details were often buried in the small print of policy documents and urged insurance companies to use larger print and plainer English in future.