Research shows that losing coverage, even temporarily, tends to make people less healthy, and it exposes them to financial losses.
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Caught up in the latest Medibank cybersecurity breach? Not happy with your premiums? Here’s what you need to know about switching health insurer.
In most markets, diversity and choice foster robust competition. In health insurance they could lead to fragmentation and market failure.
Soon, wearable fitness devices will be able to diagnose diseases. Could that lead insurers to deny coverage to people based on their data alone?
Each year private health insurance funds lobby the government to increase private health insurance premiums. They claim increases are warranted because of increasing costs.
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Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
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Professor of Health Finance, Weatherhead School of Management & School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University