Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2017
Private health insurance fix hurdle
19 July 2017 - The reform committee set up by the Turnbull government to fix private health insurance has found the task of redesigning and categorising tens of thousands of policies harder than expected.
The lack of substantive progress has prompted the former head of the government’s insurance regulation agency to call for a Productivity Commission inquiry into the sector.
After the Coalition made a series of election promises aimed at addressing concerns over the complexity and cost of insurance, the Private Health Ministerial Advisory Committee was tasked with coming up with reforms.
