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Baby's brain tumour highlights 'nightmare' experience with private health insurance
1 August 2019 - Kylie Catterick's son Josh was just four-and-a-half months old when she realised something was wrong and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2019
Medicare generations pass up health insurance
26 July 2019 - Australians who grew up with Medicare continue to shun health insurance, with new figures showing health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2019
'Being sold a dud': health insurance 'death spiral' getting worse, data shows
25 July 2019 - The number of Australians abandoning private hospital cover has surged, with the latest official data igniting ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jul 2019
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 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 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 05 Jun 2019
APRA warns health insurers of forced mergers if risks not tackled
5 June 2019 - The prudential regulator has begun talks with private health insurers likely to face sustainability challenges as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2019
Terminal brain cancer patient shares painful health insurance lesson, as more Aussies ditch cover
28 May 2019 - When doctors discovered a tumour bigger than a golf ball in the middle of Nick Stephens’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 May 2019
Health premium increases ‘must fall’: Greg Hunt
28 May 2019 - Greg Hunt wants insurers to slash premium increases next year — even if the government has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2019
Health funds want to raise a tax penalty to force you to buy their products
4 May 2019 - A $900 plus tax penalty to force the rich to buy private health insurance is now ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2019
Private cover is the canary in the coal mine for whole health system
30 April 2019 - The Grattan Institute's Stephen Duckett argues that private health cover is in a "death spiral" of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 May 2019
Labor will not rule out scrapping $6 billion health insurance rebate
2 May 2019 - Labor health spokeswoman Catherine King has refused to rule out scrapping $6 billion-a-year worth of health ...