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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 13 Aug 2017
Private health insurance: tactics to lure young people ineffective, Senate told
11 August 2017 - Under-30s need to be shown the cover is relevant to them and worth their while in terms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2017
New cervical cancer vaccine may almost eliminate disease, research shows
10 August 2017 - Cervical cancer could be almost completely eliminated, research has found, thanks to a new vaccine being ...
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 09 Aug 2017
New report proposes radical reforms for rare cancer regulation
9 August 2017 - The first Lauren Poole had heard of epithelioid sarcoma was the day she was told her ...
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 07 Aug 2017
Promoting consumer involvement in medicine decisions welcomed
7 August 2017 - The appointment of consumer leader, Jo Watson, as the inaugural deputy chairperson of the Pharmaceutical Benefits ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2017
Breakthrough HIV drug: authorities reconsider decision to block cheap access
7 August 2017 - People at high risk of HIV could soon get cheap access to a breakthrough preventative drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2017
New appointments to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
7 August 2017 - The Minister for Health has made further appointments to the membership of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2017
Medibank calls for patient consent, fee disclosure
7 August 2017 - Medibank is calling on the Turnbull government to increase transparency in the health care system and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2017
Public scrutiny mooted for private hospitals
7 August 2017 - Private hospitals are set to come under the same scrutiny as public hospitals, and be required ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2017
Call to strip government subsidies from 'junk' health insurance
4 August 2017 - Consumer advocacy group CHOICE has called on the federal government to stop providing tax breaks and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2017
Biosimilar Renflexis (infliximab) available on PBS from 1st August
1 August 2017 - Infliximab biosimilar to be dispensed predominately through hospitals. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2017
NIB’s Mark Fitzgibbon calls for ‘single payer’ in healthcare
3 August 2017 - Health insurer NIB has called on the Turnbull government to trial a “single payer” model for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Aug 2017
Review fundamentally flawed
2 August 2017 - The Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review (the King Review) has been hijacked by a combination of ...