Private health insurance rebates don't serve their purpose. Let's talk about scrapping them
- Written by Terence Cheng, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Adelaide
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten recently took the health insurance industry to task over the A$6 billion subsidy that private health insurers receive from government.
He later announced that he would move to cap health insurance premiums for two years.
What makes the private health insurance rebate so controversial, and could we scrap it...