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Through The Roof: MTAA Analysis Finds That Private Health Prices Outstrip Housing Growth Over Decade

TeamDecember 6, 2019December 6, 2019 0

Private health premiums have grown at an even faster rate than national house prices over the past decade – leaving consumers ending the decade...

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75% of Australians want health funds forced to use profits to lower prices

TeamNovember 29, 2019 0

Three-quarters of Australians support Health Minister Greg Hunt using his official powers to reject health fund premium increases over 3 per cent for next...

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Devices Industry Calls To Reject ‘Big 3’ Health Fund Increases Over 3%

TeamNovember 20, 2019November 21, 2019 0

The ‘Big 3’ corporate health funds have no reason to raise their prices more than 3 per cent next year, new evidence shows, with...

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Medical Technology Industry’s Commitment To Ethical Practice

TeamNovember 15, 2019 0

As part of the medical device industry’s ongoing commitment to ethical practice, an updated Medical Technology Industry Code of Practice was ratified at the...

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Health Minister Confirms Protheses Reforms Are Working

TeamNovember 8, 2019 0

MTAA has welcomed Health Minister Greg Hunt’s reaffirmation that the reforms to the cost of prostheses have helped to keep private health insurance premiums...

AMA: Value Of Private Health Insurance Continues To Decline

TeamNovember 4, 2019November 9, 2019 0

The AMA have released the AMA Private Health Insurance Report Card 2019 and the findings are grim.

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Insurers Fail To Address Sustainability Issues, Blame Everyone Else For It

TeamOctober 24, 2019October 24, 2019 0

The private health insurance industry continues to blame everyone but themselves for their continued failure to address financial sustainability challenges, as called out by...

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Americanising Australia’s Healthcare

TeamOctober 12, 2019October 13, 2019 0

The health insurance lobby is continuing to push to Americanise Australia’s healthcare system by incentivising large corporations to take out health insurance for employees,...

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MTAA AGREEMENT DELIVERING SAVINGS

TeamSeptember 28, 2019 0

MTAA’s Agreement with the Government has already saved insurers $314 million and is on track to exceed the $1.1 billion in expected savings, delivering...

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What are the four ways we can keep private health insurance premiums lower?

TeamAugust 30, 2019 0

In case you missed it, Keeping premiums low: towards a sustainable private healthcare system was released last week by AlphaBeta. Here’s the short version.

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Through The Roof: MTAA Analysis Finds That Private Health Prices Outstrip Housing Growth Over Decade

75% of Australians want health funds forced to use profits to lower prices

Devices Industry Calls To Reject ‘Big 3’ Health Fund Increases Over 3%

Medical Technology Industry’s Commitment To Ethical Practice

Health Minister Confirms Protheses Reforms Are Working

AMA: Value Of Private Health Insurance Continues To Decline

Insurers Fail To Address Sustainability Issues, Blame Everyone Else For It

Americanising Australia’s Healthcare

MTAA AGREEMENT DELIVERING SAVINGS

What are the four ways we can keep private health insurance premiums lower?

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