Private health too costly, sector too complex

Australian Financial Review

14 November 2019 - Australia's private health care system is too difficult for patients to navigate, leading to price gouging, time-wasting inefficiencies and differential health outcomes and costs based on where a person lives.

Healthcare sector experts will present these views on Thursday at a Melbourne Economic Forum event examining the "death spiral" in private health insurance membership levels and the growing perception that out-of-pocket costs are too high for consumers.

According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's latest figures, the proportion of people with private health insurance at the end of 2018 fell by 1%.

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