Electing to be treated as a public patient. Remember, it’s your call.
Many people simply don’t realise that when you have private health cover for yourself or your family you are still entitled to be treated as public patient in a public hospital if that is your preference. The choice is entirely yours.At Westfund we regularly hear stories about public hospital admission managers who make assumptions about…
Posted on Sunday, May 5, 2013
Limiting free public hospital care to low income earners
Concerns about the sustainability of our current model for funding health services generate plenty of newspaper column inches. This really come as no surprise to those of us who have watched these medical funding dilemmas play out in other countries. The USA experience is particularly relevant because many of the problems there related to managed…
Posted on Sunday, May 5, 2013
