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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on May 30, 2015 19:56:02 GMT 9.5
Doctors say 'junk' insurance needs to go Date May 30, 2015 - 3:21PMDoctors have called for reform of the private health insurance industry, claiming "junk" policies are clogging the hospital system. Australian Medical Association president Brian Owler said policies that cover people for public hospitals only or are filled with exclusions that make them "essentially worthless" need to be stamped out. "We can't have people that think that they can first of all jump a waiting list because they're private health insured and then go through a public hospital," Associate Professor Owler told the AMA's national conference in Brisbane on Saturday. The previous day, he used his opening address to call for both sides of politics to lift the "damaging" freeze on doctors' rebates before the next election. Advertisement He reminded delegates of the AMA's success in bringing down the government's previous attempts at introducing a GP co-payment. "We swung into campaign mode and GPs across the country galvanise into action," he said. The government and the AMA are engaged in continuing talks over the four-year indexation freeze on the rebate Medicare pays doctors Health Minister Sussan Ley has said she wants it lifted as soon as possible, but other savings need to be found before that can happen. Click Here to Read More:
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Post by Willow on Jun 26, 2015 16:50:24 GMT 9.5
I dont know where people would e that idea from - I can honestly say I have never heard a health insurer intimate that people can jump the queue in the public sector because they are privately insured. All you can ever expect is choice of doctor in that situation.
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Post by Cullyn Of Cerrmor on Jun 26, 2015 19:00:27 GMT 9.5
I don't know where people would e that idea from - I can honestly say I have never heard a health insurer intimate that people can jump the queue in the public sector because they are privately insured. All you can ever expect is choice of doctor in that situation. I don't know about jumping cues in the public Hospital system but things which take years in the public system can literally be done in weeks if you have private insurance.
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Post by Epi on Jun 27, 2015 14:33:21 GMT 9.5
This week I had surgery on my hand. Took me one week to see the specialists and two weeks later had the surgery. I've been paying private hospital insurance for years however I was quite surprised how quickly things moved.
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Post by Willow on Jun 29, 2015 9:10:43 GMT 9.5
Yep if you have private insurance and get treated in the private sector eveything moves quickly because lists go longer and no one is turned away Having working in private hospitals for may years, everything was geared to filling the theatre lists and and the beds preferably with surgical cases. In most private hospitals they don't have the added complication of emergency patients requiring urgent surgery which effectively bumps someone else off the list in public ( and so it should).
Where this does occur in private, lists go longer and people work overtime - this is not the case in public as far as I can understand.
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