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RSS FeedPosted 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 04 Feb 2018
Generic drugs: are they the future for affordable medicine?
2 February 2018 - Teva Pharmaceutical Industries—the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in the world—is in trouble. ...
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 23 Jan 2018
Out-of-pocket spending and premium contributions after implementation of the Affordable Care Act
22 January 2018 - Was implementation of the Affordable Care Act associated with reduced spending on out-of-pocket medical expenses and household ...
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2018
Why the U.S. spends so much more than other nations on health care
2 January 2018 - Studies point to a simple reason, the prices, not to the amount of care. And lowering prices ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Dec 2017
Price hikes on these top-selling drugs were a lot smaller this year, STAT analysis finds
27 December 2017 - Average annual price increases have declined at least four years in a row for 20 of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
'Drugs are too expensive for the NHS – and people are paying with their lives’
20 December 2017 - Don’t blame the NHS for denying vital medication, say members of a new activist group, Just Treatment. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Soaring cost of cancer treatment: moving beyond sticker shock
19 December 2017 - In Seligman’s famous series of experiments, two groups of dogs were shocked at random intervals. Dogs in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2017
Massachusetts’ proposed Medicaid reforms — cheaper drugs and better coverage?
13 December 2017 - While health policy attention in recent months has focused on Washington, D.C., several proposals from individual ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Dec 2017
Submissions for health insurance premiums increased knocked back
13 December 2017 - Health insurance providers are getting knocked back on their proposed premium hikes for 2018 because they ...