on how public hospitals are adopting aggressive tactics to push more patients to use their health insurance even if it offers no material benefit for them.Others to come forward include legal experts and medical professionals who have slammed the practise as rampant and potentially a form of fraud.
Despite making it clear that she wanted to remain a public patient, she discovered the officer had checked the 'yes' box to a question asking if she wanted to go private. The officer later said she had pre-checked the box and had "forgotten" to cross it out. Sydney University lecturer Richard Hanney said the practise of cash-strapped public hospitals targeting privately insured patients was "aggressive, deliberate and structured".
Reads as structural issues & gaps in coverage. Unsure what the agreement was between govt and insurers. Makes it confusing for all. Why are folks not going straight to private hospitals if they have coverage? Also looks like lobbying for premium increase by the insurers.
Why don’t we just fund health care adequately? Then hospitals would not have to run raffles and cake stalls and they would not have to beg patients to use insurance whenever they can.
The practice of trawling for private patients disadvantages the whole community. PHI members are subsidising the costs of public hosps, having already contributed through their taxes. It drives up the costs of premiums for all members & means public patients need to wait longer.
Best to just say you let it lapse in some circumstances, what can they do? al little white lie, taking from the rich to give to the poor.......private health members are getting fleeced with little incentives from governments. Howard did give a little over a decade ago.
🤔 I’m confused - Why have insurance if you don’t call on it when necessary? Otherwise you’re taxing the public system unnecessarily and/or throwing your money away on insurance you don’t need or maybe can’t afford.
Yes - horrible bureaucrats. Nevertheless, private insurance is supposed to pay the costs of private patients in public hospitals. If your insurance gives you no benefit, 1) take it up with your insurance company, or 2) Stop paying for insurance.
The whole medical system should be up for an enquiry.
The Private Health insurers feed journalists a ‘story’ and it turns into this. They specifically sell products that *only* cover care in public hospitals, but don’t want people to use them? Journalists being wilfully used.
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