Saturday Magazine

21 Jul 2019

Private Health Insurance Death Spiral

Health, Podcast

Stephen Duckett @StephenJDuckett is the Health Program Director at the Grattan Institute @GrattanInst. He argues that there are systemic problems with the current private health insurance system in Australia, and it can’t survive in its current form. Young people in particular often feel that it simply doesn’t make sense for them.

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