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Turnbull struggles to deal with funding the nation’s soaring health care demands
21 August 2017 - The Turnbull government will almost reach its cap on hospital funding in the first year of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance not 'junk': NIB boss rejects doctors' 'paternalistic' proposal
21 August 2017 - Private health insurer NIB has rejected accusations that some policies are "junk" insurance that fail to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2017
Private health insurance 'junk' policies ripping Australians off, AMA says
21 August 2017 - Australian doctors have declared private medicine is "under siege", and are pushing the Federal Government to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2017
Costs eat into private health incentives
14 August 2017 - The financial incentive to take out private health insurance is fast diminishing for tens of thousands ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2017
Health insurance comparison sites don’t address affordability: ombudsman
9 August 2017 - Comparison tools will not address the rising affordability concerns with health insurance, the commonwealth ombudsman has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2017
Health insurance demands robust rethink to restore value for consumers
7 August 2017 - Widespread and growing community frustration with the cost and inadequacies of private health insurance oblige the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2017
Private health cover forecast to become more unaffordable as insurers, doctors point finger
1 August 2017 - Do you have private health insurance? Are you considering cancelling or downgrading it because you can't ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jul 2017
Private health insurance tipped to be ‘a luxury’ for one in five
31 July 2017 - Private health insurance is on track to become unaffordable for one in five policyholders, the peak ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jul 2017
The Tasmanian hepatitis C buyers’ club
25 July 2017 - In 2014, when Greg Jefferys’s urine started smelling like dead meat, he knew there was something ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2017
Financial stress impacting cancer survivors
21 July 2017 - Half of all Australian cancer patients experience financial stress and money problems often impacts their treatment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2017
Unhealthy diagnosis for Medibank as young baulk at insurance
18 July 2017 - Medibank Private’s share price has had a choppy run in the past few months and the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2017
Health cover at ‘tipping point’
7 July 2017 - Medibank Private boss Craig Drummond has warned that the health insurance sector is at a “critical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2017
Private health insurers must do more to arrest rise in complaints, Senate told
5 July 2017 - Ombudsman director warns of ‘an increased level of frustration with affordability’ and calls on the industry to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2017
NIB CEO Mark Fitzgibbon says reforms needed to halt health insurance premium hikes
15 June 2017 - Listed health insurer NIB wants to offer discounts to younger Australians who take up private health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jun 2017
Actuaries push for insurers to pay cancer patients upfront
8 June 2017 - The Actuaries Institute and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia are calling for private health insurers ...