The main problem for private health funds is simply that people don’t really want our product. Jennifer Doggett puts the case for private health insurance.
Income earners
Time to reassess the health care rebate
It’s weird for governments to subsidise queue-jumping, particularly when they are being criticised for under-resourcing areas where there is great need – such as indigenous health and emergency wards, writes Ian McAuley.
MacCormack: Greens show up Howard on energy subsidies
Quite how you encourage people to reduce their carbon emissions when you’re subsidising their power usage isn’t clear. It’s like subsidising a smoker’s cigarette costs because of all the taxes you’ve imposed on tobacco, writes David MacCormack.
There’s more than one way to fill a super account
Contrary to the opinion of his opponents, John Howard has not robbed from the poor to give to the rich, says Nicholas Gruen.
Peter Shergold’s golden future
Top level talk in Canberra says that the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Peter Shergold, has set a new post election course, writes Christian Kerr.
