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The fix for American health care can be found in Europe
10 August 2017 - Policy makers should take a close look. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
Health insurance coverage and health — what the recent evidence tells us
9 August 2017 - The national debate over the Affordable Care Act has involved substantial discussion about what effects — if ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
Repeal, replace, repair, retreat — Republicans’ health care quagmire
9 August 2017 - For 7 years, Republicans vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. ...
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 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 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 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
Republicans in Congress bypass Trump to shore up health law
1 August 2017 - Congressional Republicans moved on Tuesday to defuse President Trump’s threat to cut off critical payments to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2017
The Americans who saved health insurance
1 August 2017 - Many Americans look back on the heroic political fights of the past — for suffrage, Social ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2017
Private health cover forecast to become more unaffordable as insurers, doctors point finger
1 August 2017 - Do you have private health insurance? Are you considering cancelling or downgrading it because you can't ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2017
Bupa’s call to scrap approval process for health cover premiums
29 July 2017 - Health insurance giant Bupa has called on the government to remove the need for ministerial approval ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2017
Private health insurance tipped to be ‘a luxury’ for one in five
31 July 2017 - Private health insurance is on track to become unaffordable for one in five policyholders, the peak ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jul 2017
The Trump administration still has the power to wreak havoc on Obamacare
28 July 2017 - Republicans’ latest efforts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama’s health care law, failed in the ...