Health insurance industry


Revealed: The insurance lobby’s secret war on Michael Moore

A former insurance executive has reveals the secret, calculated tactics employed by the insurance industry to discredit Michael Moore’s healthcare documentary Sicko, including the use of “scare tactics” to manipulate politicians and the general public.

Public awards for private gain?

It was with some surprise that I saw the public face of the private health insurance industry Russell Schneider’s name among the recipients of Australia Day honours, writes Melissa Sweet.

Throwing a surgical implement into health insurance profiteering

In quick order and amidst plenty of self-interest, the majority of Australia’s private health insurance industry is being taken out of the hands of state and mutual ownership and being sold to the capitalists in stove-pipe hats and puffing the fat cigars.