Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2017
'Corrupt' system drives Australian health costs
14 March 2017 - Competing arguments about why Australians are paying more for private health insurance are set to play out in a parliamentary hearing.
Australians are paying the highest prices in the world for pacemakers and other medical devices because of "corrupting" forces driving up the cost of private health insurance, an industry insider claims.
Rules around how much private patients must pay for medical devices have been likened to a "criminal cartel", described as a government-sponsored system for artificially fixing prices.
