3 August 2017 - Health insurer NIB has called on the Turnbull government to trial a “single payer” model for healthcare services, as it argues political courage is needed to address spiralling costs in the system.

NIB chief executive Mark Fitzgibbon, in his submission to a senate inquiry on private health insurance, said with cost pressure on government and private healthcare payers continuing to mount, it was timely to revisit the “Medicare Select” concept.

Medicare Select was outlined in the Rudd government’s National Health and Hospital Reform Commission’s report of 2010 and proposed a reorganisation of the relationship between purchaser, provider and con­sumer.

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