Category Archive For "Expat insurance"
Why did Hong Kong tumble down the global liveability ranking 2018?
In this year’s global liveability index survey published by ECA International, Hong Kong was ranked in 41st place – representing a drop of another 12 places since last year’s survey, and also the city-state’s lowest ranking in the past 10 years. Factors taken into consideration in the global liveability index survey include pollution, socio-political tensions, …
Is elderly healthcare vouchers enough to provide seniors medical coverage?
Hong Kong is a frequent winner when it comes to life expectancy around the world. Recently, the city has topped the rank again in another Japanese government statistics, with 87.3 years for women and 81.2 for man. With improved medical treatment and advanced technology, it is expected that the figures will continue to climb, and …
Getting hospital insurance to beat the winter flu queues
Around the same time last year, we were writing about the Hong Kong health sector’s moves to address a common occurrence in Winter: excessive winter flu queues clogging up hospitals. Despite several measures being taken by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority and healthcare providers alike, demand for medical treatment at hospitals has again ballooned to …
Healthy New Year’s Resolutions for 2019
Ah, Healthy New Year’s Resolutions – it feels so great to make them but so hard to actually implement. Each January, we make promises to live better, healthier lives, and then we tend to stick to those self-promises for some time. It feels right to make a healthy new year’s resolution to lose weight right …
The average annual growth of the cost of international medical insurance in Hong Kong
The cost of international medical insurance in Hong Kong rose since 2015. How do we know this? For the first time in Pacific Prime’s history of publishing our annual Cost of International Health Insurance reports, this year’s report includes a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) analysis of average premiums from 2015 to 2018. The CAGR …