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Health research and consumers: good thinking
14 May 2018 - One of Australia’s top medical researchers, Professor Ian Frazer AC, has called on Australians to consider ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2018
Private health care in Australia: health policy’s wicked problem
16 April 2018 - The anguish expressed by many of the 1,200 respondents to the Consumers Health Forum’s Out of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2018
Private health insurance analysis shows double-digit rise in some premiums
15 April 2018 - Consumer group Choice says in one case a private provider increased costs by 45%. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2018
Patients grappling with $10,000 out-of-pocket medical bills, survey reveals
5 April 2018 - For 30 years, Tracey Barnett and her husband Jim have paid thousands of dollars each year ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Apr 2018
The cost of asthma medicines
3 April 2018 - Out-of-pocket cost is a major factor contributing to poor adherence to treatment, including in Australia where most ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Mar 2018
Legislation to make private health insurance simpler and more affordable
28 March 2018 - Legislation has been introduced into Parliament to deliver a wide ranging package of reforms to make private ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2018
Doctors name and shame health insurers as profits and complaints soar
26 March 2018 - Doctors have exposed the best and worst private health insurers in a new report card that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Feb 2018
More Australians dispose of health insurance because of rising premiums
14 February 2018 - More than 12,000 Australians ditched their hospital cover in the three months to last December, new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Feb 2018
Mediscare merchants bid up private health insurance premiums
7 February 2018 - As the political author of the original "Mediscare" that has given the Australian Medical Association (the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Feb 2018
Thank Mediscare for high private health insurance premiums
6 February 2018 - In last year's Budget, the government declared open season on the banks. Why? Because they made ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jan 2018
Lowest private health insurance premium change in 17 years
25 January 2018 - The Australian Government’s reforms to take the pressure off private health insurance has today delivered the lowest ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jan 2018
Health premium 4 per cent price hike to cost families
25 January 2018 - Private health insurance premiums are set to rise from April, with families being among those most affected ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jan 2018
Out of pocket pain – share your experience
18 January 2018 - The thousands of Australians who have faced high out of pocket medical bills now have a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2018
Consumers to be slugged with $200 private health insurance price rises
17 January 2018 - Consumers will be slugged with an average 4% rise in private health insurance premiums this year ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jan 2018
Superannuation plundered to pay medical bills
9 January 2018 - The rising use of superannuation funds to meet high medical bills is a disturbing sign of ...