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Private health insurance leaves plenty of people unhappy, so how can it be fixed?
25 July 2019 - With young and healthy people baulking at the cost of private health insurance, there are fears ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jul 2019
'Shoot Bambi': NIB boss pushes to abolish Medicare
23 July 2019 - Australia should abolish Medicare and force people to take out private health insurance instead, according to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2019
'It's not minutes to midnight': private health insurers are financially robust, says former regulator
22 July 2019 - Australia's private health insurers including ASX listed Medibank and NIB are in robust financial health, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Private health insurance worthy of support
17 July 2019 - While there are many who have strong ideological objections to the use of taxpayers' money to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
House votes to repeal Obamacare tax once seen as key to health law
18 July 2019 - In the heat of the legislative fight over the Affordable Care Act, Obama administration officials argued ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Private health care facing 'death spiral' if young, healthy users abandon insurance, report says
16 July 2019 - Australia's health care system has become increasingly unfair, costly and confusing, according to a new report, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Canada’s labour leaders encourage premiers to embrace universal pharmacare
10 July 2019 - The presidents of federations of labour from across the country are in Saskatoon during the Council ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
U.S. appeals court signals sympathy to bid to strike down Obamacare
9 July 2019 - A federal appeals court panel appeared sympathetic on Tuesday to Republican efforts to overturn Obamacare, expressing skepticism ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2019
Kamala Harris says ‘Medicare for all’ wouldn’t end private insurance. It would.
5 July 2019 - She favours single payer but wants a role for private insurance. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2019
'Jaws of death': health insurance faces its crisis moment
6 July 2019 - “My goal is very clear, to make sure we achieve the goal of being the best ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2019
Democrats clash over ‘Medicare for all’ in first debate
26 June 2019 - The issue over health insurance marked the first stark divide among the candidates, and sparked a heated ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2019
Canada’s ‘Pharmacare’ idea will face the same obstacles as Obamacare
27 June 2019 - Canadians have long viewed their single payer health care system with a near-religious reverence, largely because ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jun 2019
Pharmacare in Canada remains an idealistic pitch, without a realistic plan
26 June 2019 - We still haven't figured out how to make health care truly universal. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jun 2019
PwC says US companies are expected to spend 6% more on employee health care next year as drug prices rise
20 June 2019 - The rate of increase is a four-year high, due in part to rising drug prices. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2019
Pelosi: Democrats will 'fight relentlessly' against Trump's ObamaCare repeal attempts
18 June 2019 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced President Trump on Monday for reviving plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare, ...