Health insurance
Brace yourself: Energy, internet and insurance price rises are coming
Telstra customers are set to experience their third price increase in 12 months.
- Jessica Yun and Frances Howe
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- Analysis
- Healthcare
‘Over my dead body’: Fight to keep Healthscope’s hospitals alive just getting started
Just what will it take to ensure the lights stay on at 37 hospitals employing 18,000 staff across Australia? We are about to find out.
- Colin Kruger
- Exclusive
- State Parliament
The unholy alliance against new laws that ‘disproportionately’ impact women
Liberal MPs have joined unions in warning that changes to workers’ compensation laws would have a disproportionate impact on women.
- Alexandra Smith
Trump administration seeks death penalty for alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione
US Attorney-General Pam Bondi said it was part of Donald Trump’s agenda “to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again”.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Opinion
How to avoid a double whammy to your private health premiums next month
In just over two weeks, there will be yet another hit to the hip pockets of millions of Aussies: private health insurance premiums will go up.
- Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
One in five patients skip treatment due to out-of-pocket costs
The survey also found 40 per cent of private hospital patients were being slugged with out-of-pocket specialist fees of more than $1000 – and many weren’t informed of all costs in advance.
- Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
- Exclusive
- Pregnancy
Emma ditched her expensive health cover but a new plan could get her back
Expectant mothers could have their pregnancy managed by a midwife or GP under a radical proposal to make private maternity care more affordable.
- Angus Thomson
Who pays for COVID’s victims? Ultimately, we all do
Even if you do not care about the health of others, there is a self-interested reason to want fewer people spending months of their lives in private hospitals.
- The Herald's View
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- Health
Spinal surgery, aged care, long COVID: Australia’s most expensive hospital stays revealed
Private health funds are becoming particularly concerned about the burden of long COVID on the health system, five years since the pandemic began.
- Angus Thomson
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
IBAC probes claims sick patients languished as surgeons chased fees
In one case a woman who was critically unwell in the intensive care unit waited from 8.30am until late afternoon for surgery to treat a potentially deadly infection.
- Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
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