14 January 2017 - Health insurance chiefs have warned that the issue of affordability is close to crisis point as the head of the industry body argues reform will take “more courage” from the Turnbull government than it has previously shown.

HBF boss Rob Bransby, president of Private Healthcare Australia, said 2017 had to be the year when the government showed it was serious about putting a brake on the rising health costs that were forcing up insurance ­premiums.

The call for reform comes as Malcolm Turnbull is forced to find a new health minister after Sussan Ley resigned yesterday following her travel expenses scandal.

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