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Costs eat into private health incentives
14 August 2017 - The financial incentive to take out private health insurance is fast diminishing for tens of thousands ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
Health insurance comparison sites don’t address affordability: ombudsman
9 August 2017 - Comparison tools will not address the rising affordability concerns with health insurance, the commonwealth ombudsman has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2017
Health insurance demands robust rethink to restore value for consumers
7 August 2017 - Widespread and growing community frustration with the cost and inadequacies of private health insurance oblige the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2017
Private health cover forecast to become more unaffordable as insurers, doctors point finger
1 August 2017 - Do you have private health insurance? Are you considering cancelling or downgrading it because you can't ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2017
Private health insurance tipped to be ‘a luxury’ for one in five
31 July 2017 - Private health insurance is on track to become unaffordable for one in five policyholders, the peak ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2017
The Tasmanian hepatitis C buyers’ club
25 July 2017 - In 2014, when Greg Jefferys’s urine started smelling like dead meat, he knew there was something ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2017
Financial stress impacting cancer survivors
21 July 2017 - Half of all Australian cancer patients experience financial stress and money problems often impacts their treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2017
Unhealthy diagnosis for Medibank as young baulk at insurance
18 July 2017 - Medibank Private’s share price has had a choppy run in the past few months and the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2017
Health cover at ‘tipping point’
7 July 2017 - Medibank Private boss Craig Drummond has warned that the health insurance sector is at a “critical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2017
Private health insurers must do more to arrest rise in complaints, Senate told
5 July 2017 - Ombudsman director warns of ‘an increased level of frustration with affordability’ and calls on the industry to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2017
NIB CEO Mark Fitzgibbon says reforms needed to halt health insurance premium hikes
15 June 2017 - Listed health insurer NIB wants to offer discounts to younger Australians who take up private health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2017
Actuaries push for insurers to pay cancer patients upfront
8 June 2017 - The Actuaries Institute and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia are calling for private health insurers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2017
Free care at public hospitals is coming to an end as state and territory governments charge
19 May 2017 - Medicare is being privatised by stealth as state governments end free care at public hospitals and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2017
Double whammy leaves private and public patients short
17 May 2017 - Australia’s health system is turning into an increasingly inequitable mix of high health fund profits while ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2017
'People are getting angry': Health funds accused of 'obscene' profits
17 May 2017 - Skyrocketing profits for insurers have been branded "obscene" by sections of the health industry, coming just ...