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The secret slugs doubling your health fund premium
11 June 2017 - Over a million Australians are paying up to $3,000 more for private health insurance as a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jun 2017
Public health ‘needs private patients’ to help keep specialists
8 June 2017 - Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick has defended the practice of public hospitals billing health insurers, warning ...
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 06 Jun 2017
Research backs case for health insurance discount for young
6 June 2017 - Young people are more likely to take out health insurance if offered a discount, new research ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2017
ACCC 'more aggressive' towards private health insurers
31 May 2017 - The corporate watchdog has made an example of NIB as part of a wider review of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2017
$55,000 spent but hospital funding reform ‘will never be policy’
30 May 2017 - A proposal to pay hospitals in a similar way to Medicare’s funding of GPs has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2017
ACCC takes health fund NIB to court over concealing changes to its MediGap Scheme
30 May 2017 - The consumer watchdog has taken health fund NIB to court, accusing it of concealing changes to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2017
Health Minister Greg Hunt shoots down department's secret hospital plan
29 May 2017 - Health department bosses have described their radical proposal to remake hospital funding as "future gazing" after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2017
Leaked documents reveal secret plan for radical hospital overhaul
29 May 2017 - The private health insurance rebate would be abolished, consumers would be charged more for extras cover and ...
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 May 2017
Hospital waiting list queue jumpers outrage
16 May 2017 - Rich people are using their private health insurance to jump the waiting lists for surgery at ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 May 2017
Sanders defends Trump's praise of Australian health care system
6 May 2017 - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was right to call Australia's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2017
Private health insurance premiums set to get cheaper across Australia
4 May 2017 - Private health insurance premiums could be $150 lower from next year after the Federal Government moved ...