Private Healthcare Australia (PHA)

NSW residents with private health insurance are being hit with excessive out-of-pocket costs for opting to use their insurance in a public hospital. In some cases, these bills are exceeding $10,000.

The NSW Government must abandon its plan to tax 4 million people contributing to their own healthcare via health insurance in NSW. These people are taking pressure off the state’s overwhelmed public hospital system which has the highest wait times for surgery in Australia.

Allowing tens of thousands of people to drain their superannuation for medical and dental treatment each year is driving up costs for all consumers and should be stopped, the peak body for health funds says.

Australians with health insurance will not lose access to private hospitals, despite a scare campaign launched today by Healthscope and its private equity owner, Brookfield, to mislead consumers.

Health fund payments to hospitals surged 8% over the past year as an increasing number of Australians turned to private hospitals for rapid access to care, including elective surgery.