Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Nov 2016
Private health insurers should wind back 'aggressive tactics' – AMA head
24 November 2016 - Australian Medical Association chief calls on insurers to stop selling inappropriate policies and says behaviour of some risks undermining system.
The head of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Michael Gannon, has called on private health insurers to stop selling inappropriate policies and to wind back “aggressive tactics” that undermine doctors and consumers.
“We continue to be concerned by the behaviour of the larger insurers,” Gannon told a conference of senior health insurance fund staff, representatives from the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority and senior staff from the Department of Health in Melbourne.
