Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Health insurance: do you need it? Means testing the start | Crikey

Means testing is all very well, but do we need private health insurance at all? Ian McAuley makes the case for why a state-backed system works better at Inside Story.

The federal government?s battle to cut back subsidies for private health insurance hit its first obstacle in 2009, when the Senate rejected a means test on the health insurance rebate introduced by the Coalition 12 years earlier. Only in 2012, when it faced a less obstructive Senate (but a more difficult House of Representatives), did the government get its legislation

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Source: http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/16/an-unhealthy-subsidy-do-we-even-need-health-insurance/

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