Big Switch or Big Swindle? Either way it's buyer beware.
“The Big Switch” is a promotion – being driven primarily via one media outlet – that encourages consumers of health insurance to sign up to the prospect of a better deal via the bargaining strength of “people power”. It has literally been making headlines for the past month, the latest of which was splashed across…
Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Making health insurance more attractive
Health funds bleating on about the risks to the health system of political decisions that make private health insurance less attractive are often dismissed as transparently self-serving. But consider the facts. This next round of federal policy changes will clearly make private health cover less attractive for Australians and there are no policy concessions being…
Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
