Private health insurance: the leech sucking on our sick bloodPrivate health care is an evil publicly funded roach that feasts on people’s middle-of-the-night fears and if we had any guts we would crush it beneath our heels, says Shakira Hussein, as she reveals why she just bought it anyway.
Medibank private
Oz Post and Medibank the cream of the public sector earners
The high salary earners of the public sector are streets ahead of the best paid politicians, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
The knives are coming out — time to sack Medibank chairman
Kevin Rudd is still yet to sack his first public servant but there are plenty of people voluntarily falling on swords and many more looking over their shoulders, writes Stephen Mayne.
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.
Patients drip fed the fine print on private health insurance campaign
A recent advertising campaign from the federal government promotes private health insurance to people on the basis that they may be able to receive rebates for services in the home, such as dialysis and chemotherapy. But it’s a fallacy. For now.
