Hospitals, insurers call to raise age of lifetime health cover penalty to 35

Private hospital operators are pushing for the age at which Australians are penalised for not signing up for health insurance to be raised, after the latest official data showed a further decline in the number of people with hospital cover.

APHA chief Michael Roff says Australians should not be penalised for failing to sign up for health insurance by age 30.The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data released on Tuesday showed that 28,567 fewer Australians had hospital cover on June 30 compared with three months earlier, leaving 56.4 per cent of the population without insurance.

Dana_Adele Private Heath Insurance = Legalised extotion...

Dana_Adele There shouldn't be health insurance if you are working and paying tax, same shit everywhere where is all the money going💰 🤔

Dana_Adele Time some Drs and medical professionals stopped charging so much!!

Dana_Adele Private health insurance is in a death spiral. Don’t be the last fool to pay for it.

Dana_Adele Piss off, fmd PHI is a total waste of money

Dana_Adele It’s pretty expensive for providing very little.

Dana_Adele Private health insurance is highway robbery. If it were cheaper and better value more people would join. I joined over 20 years ago when it was $100 P/M for a family. Fast forward 20 years. Over $400 per month for 2 adults with less benefits. And they wonder why

Dana_Adele As long as private insurers subsidise me, having done the right thing paying since I was of age.

Dana_Adele It’s too expensive

Dana_Adele I’m seriously considering dumping it

Dana_Adele circling the drain

Dana_Adele Who wants to spend their hard earned on a failed, expensive and no value for money scheme....it ain't a fund, funds are there to help people, these pricks decline eveything or pay back a pittance of the outlayed medical costs....not worth it.

Dana_Adele Perhaps if they lowered the cost.. novelideas

Dana_Adele Oh, could it be that health insurance companies are gangsters fleecing people ... ? What is the ratio between payouts and profits?

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