Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2017
Private health insurance: tactics to lure young people ineffective, Senate told
11 August 2017 - Under-30s need to be shown the cover is relevant to them and worth their while in terms of their budgets, insurer NIB says.
The young and healthy need more convincing about the benefit of taking out private health insurance, and government reforms should show “imagination” and aim at making insurance more “attractive” to that market, insurer NIB says.
In its submission to the Senate inquiry into the value and affordability of private health insurance, NIB said “current sticks and carrots, including the Medicare levy surcharge, lifetime health cover and the private health insurance rebates” were not working well enough to attract healthy under 30s.
