Health Care Insurance News
Palin's election pitch toast of Tea Party
Monday February 8, 2010
WASHINGTON: The former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has praised the grassroots Tea Party movement and predicted its activism is "the future of politics in America", in a speech that had all the hallmarks of a campaign pitch.Figures fail to back PM's $100b blow-out
Tuesday February 2, 2010
EVIDENCE to back the Prime Minister's warning of a $100 billion blow-out in health insurance rebates was absent from the government's Intergenerational Report, shaking the credibility of government forecasts.SYMPTOM OF AILING SYSTEM
Thursday December 24, 2009
ONE company's ram-raid on hospital patients shows just how precarious Australia's private health funding situation has become.Boost for Obama as House passes health bill
Monday November 9, 2009
BARACK OBAMA has gained strong momentum behind his quest for health-care reform, after the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, delivered a majority of Democrats in favour of a bill that passed in a special session on Saturday night.Obama health care bill passes by five votes
Monday November 9, 2009
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama now has significant momentum behind his quest for health care reform, after Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered a majority of Democrats in favour of a bill that passed the House of Representatives in a special session on Saturday night US time.President's pledge of health cover for all gets going
Wednesday June 10, 2009
DURING the presidential campaign Barack Obama often told of his mother's last months before she died of cancer, aged 53, and how she fretted over whether her insurance company would pay for her treatments because she had changed employers and might not be covered.Health Care Woes The Fault Of A System, Not The Unions
Thursday November 13, 2008
Marcus Coleman (no relation) is entitled to argue that automotive unions in the United States have been resistant to changing market conditions, but he errs in casting blame on the unions for the dysfunctional US health system and other social security arrangements (Letters, November 12).Healthscope In Excellent Health
Saturday October 18, 2008
HEALTHSCOPE will remain insulated from the global financial meltdown and could even experience growing demand for its health-care services, the company's chief executive says.Solid Result Says Health Group
Thursday September 25, 2008
HEALTH-CARE, retirement living and financial services mutual Australian Unity has recorded flat profit growth as health insurers size each other up as potential merger partners.With Mbf Sealed, Bupa May Integrate Insurance Brands
Saturday July 26, 2008
HEALTH care giant Bupa is considering ditching the HBA and MBF brand names and has not decided whether to hold on to all the assets it picked up as part of its $2.41 billion buy-out of MBF earlier this year.Budget Move The Beginning Of A Health-care Cure
Wednesday May 28, 2008
Despite the protests, new income thresholds are a fix, not a failure, in health care, writes Joshua Gans.Keep Out Of Private Health Care, Symbion Tells Minister
Friday January 13, 2006
MANAGING director of health-care company Symbion Health Rob Cooke has dismissed comments from Health Minister Tony Abbott that the Federal Government needed to regulate health-care businesses.Gulf Between Public And Private Health Care Grows
Friday May 27, 2005
Health insurance has delivered a big growth in procedures for private patients while uninsured patients wait longer for a shrinking number of operations performed in public hospitals, new figures show.Check-up On $1.5bn Health Deal
Friday April 15, 2005
The competition regulator will investigate Ramsay Health Care's $1.5 billion acquisition of Affinity Health, a deal that forms Australia's biggest private hospital business controlling 26 per cent of the market.Growing Health Divide Blamed For 7000 Deaths A Year
Monday March 7, 2005
About 7000 disadvantaged Australians a year die prematurely because of the growing inequities in health care, a medical specialists' organisation says.Health At Too High A Premium
Friday March 4, 2005
The increase in health insurance premiums is but the latest warning, if warnings were needed, of health care costs that are out of control. The pending 8 per cent average rise in premiums follows other equally steep increases in recent years. Worse, those increases are set to continue.Health Funding Is State Problem: Abbott
Saturday January 29, 2005
The Federal Government has rejected any increase in its funding of public hospitals, saying the financial pressure from the rising costs of health care and increasing demand on the system is the responsibility of the states and territories.Medibank Is Born After Long, Difficult Labour Doctors, Health Funds And Non-labor States Fiercely Opposed Universal Health Care
Saturday January 1, 2005
IT TOOK a narrow election win and the historic joint sitting of Parliament in August 1974 for the Whitlam government finally to deliver its promise of a universal health scheme.