December 2024
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Treating health funds like cash cows will be a disaster for our health system
If we want a sustainable private system, the next federal government must focus on reforms that put consumers before vested interests, to keep health insurance affordable.
August 2024
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Five reasons health funds shouldn’t bail out private hospitals
The short-sighted arguments of vested interests would increase the cost of insurance for Australians contributing to their own healthcare.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Keeping premiums affordable requires modern healthcare
If Labor wants to keep health insurance affordable to take pressure off the public system, tougher reforms are needed to make our health system more efficient and sustainable.
December 2022
- Opinion
- Health insurance
Australia’s great private health insurance comeback
Nine consecutive quarters of membership growth from the beginning of the pandemic has quietened talk of a so-called ‘death spiral’.