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Rachel David

December 2024

In a cost-of-living crisis, even small increases in fees will force people to downgrade or even drop out of 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

Doctors are also having a go with their call for health funds to return more to members, even though consumers already receive 86 cents for every premium dollar – the highest of all insurance types.

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

Hospitals are struggling with the rising costs of recruitment, power and food,

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

Unsurprisingly, the key driver of this trend is public hospital waiting lists for surgery.

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’.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/rachel-david-p536mm