Private health care


Private health insurance: the leech sucking on our sick blood

Private 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.

Australia’s wasteful, unfair private health insurance rebate

Reports today that Treasury has repeatedly told the Rudd Government that the Private Health Insurance (PHI) rebate is inefficient is hardly surprising news, writes Dr Tim Woodruff.

US08: Mitt Romney, bland all the way down

Stay on the surface and Mitt Romney is a bland cipher. But dig deeper and he’s not that interesting. Yep, the man is bland all the way down, writes Guy Rundle.

Crikey Says: Crikey Says

Therese Rein has gallstones and will undergo a “routine surgical procedure later this week”. It’s here of course that Ms Rein, multimillionaire spouse of the Prime Minister, is fortunate.