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Debate: Are doctors or insurers to blame for health insurance price hikes?
23 August 2017 - The peak body for the private health insurance industry, Private Healthcare Australia (PHA), has been warning ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2017
Senate health panel announces hearings on Obamacare markets
22 August 2017 - Insurance commissioners, governors to weigh in on ‘stabilisation’ fixes. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Aug 2017
McConnell: next steps on Obamacare are ‘somewhat murky’
21 August 2017 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that the next steps for Congress on health care ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Record number of Australians receiving Medicare benefits
21 August 2017 - More Australian patients are seeing their doctor without having to reach for their wallet with GP bulk ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance not 'junk': NIB boss rejects doctors' 'paternalistic' proposal
21 August 2017 - Private health insurer NIB has rejected accusations that some policies are "junk" insurance that fail to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance 'junk' policies ripping Australians off, AMA says
21 August 2017 - Australian doctors have declared private medicine is "under siege", and are pushing the Federal Government to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2017
Free visits to the doctor reach a record high, new Medicare statistics show
20 August 2017 - The number of Australian patients are seeing their doctor without paying a cent for it after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2017
A start-up suggests a fix to the health care morass
16 August 2017 - If you watched the drama in Washington last month, you may have come away with the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2017
Trump threat on Obamacare would boost deficit by $194 billion
16 August 2017 - Administration has said it may halt payments to insurers. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2017
House conservatives hope to revive Obamacare repeal vote
13 August 2017 - Conservatives in the House hope to revive the failed effort to gut the Affordable Care Act ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2017
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 14 Aug 2017
Single payer or bust?
14 August 2017 - News arrived last week that Our Revolution, the political group that arose from Bernie Sanders’s presidential ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2017
Health insurers get more time to calculate increases for 2018
13 August 2017 - The Trump administration is giving health insurance companies more time to calculate price increases for 2018 ...
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 10 Aug 2017
Trump takes issue with McConnell’s accusation that he had ‘excessive expectations’ for Congress
9 August 2017 - President Trump on Wednesday took a shot at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, pointedly asking on ...