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Emergency waiting room at a hospital.

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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Generic hospital photos of John Fawkner Hospital in Moreland Friday 22 November 2024. Photo AFR/ LUIS ENRIQUE ASCUI

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
Surgeons in the operating room

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
Ryan Millar takes a nap at work.

This Perth office is encouraging naps at work. Here’s why yours should too

Ever wished you could duck somewhere for a quick kip at work? Staff at this Perth workplace can, and the results may surprise you.

  • Claire Ottaviano

Health insurers want to raise prices. How far will Labor let them go?

Health Minister Mark Butler said he was “not inclined” to approve any of the proposed premium rises that insurers had requested, sending them back to the drawing board.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Luigi Mangione, center, is escorted from Manhattan Criminal Court after his arraignment where he pled not guilty to state murder and terror charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Americans blame insurance companies nearly as much as Luigi Mangione for CEO’s death, poll finds

Younger Americans are particularly likely to see the alleged murder as the result of a confluence of forces rather than just one person’s action.

  • Linley Sanders, Tom Murphy and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux
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IBAC is investigating allegations that a handful of surgeons at the Royal Melbourne Hospital billed the TAC, Workcover and potentially private health funds for work that was never carried out.

RMH scandal deepens with claims surgeons rorting WorkCover, private health insurers

The state’s corruption commission is investigating claims that surgeons at one of the country’s top hospitals fraudulently billed WorkCover and private health funds.

  • Broede Carmody and Henrietta Cook
Luigi Mangione was transferred to New York where he was charged with federal crimes.

Luigi Mangione could face death penalty after new federal charges

A plane, a helicopter and a throng of police officers with assault rifles heralded the return of the suspected killer to New York.

  • Julio-Cesar Chavez, Jonathan Allen and Luc Cohen
Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse after being arrested in Pennsylvania.

Luigi Mangione charged with murder as an act of terrorism

The 26-year-old suspect faces an additional terror charge over the alleged killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson.

  • Jake Offenhartz and Jennifer Peltz
Luigi Mangione Mangione has emerged as an anti-hero, dubbed “the Adjuster”, and quickly lionised.

Documentary makers swoop on Luigi Mangione story

Two separate documentaries are in the works about the story of Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare chief Brian Thompson on a New York street.

  • Kayla Olaya

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