E&OE… Topics: Making private health insurance more affordable and simpler to understand SABRA LANE: Joining us now from Melbourne is the Health Minister, Greg Hunt. Minister, good morning and welcome. GREG HUNT: Good morning, Sabra. SABRA LANE: Just briefly, how do you characterise this change? GREG HUNT: This is about including additional coverage for areas…
E&OE… Topics: Making private health insurance more affordable and simpler to understand DAVID KOCH: Now, an overhaul of the private health insurance is promising simpler and more affordable cover. In the biggest shake-up the industry has seen, the Federal Government will today announce reforms which include discounts for young people, boosting mental health benefits, new…
E&OE… Topics: Making private health insurance more affordable and simpler to understand ROBBIE BUCK: Greg Hunt is the Federal Minister for Health and joins us this morning. Good morning. GREG HUNT: Good morning, Robbie ROBBIE BUCK: Okay. Take us through what these changes are and I guess the background behind it, too. GREG HUNT: Well,…
E&OE… Topics: Announcement of private health insurance reforms GREG HUNT: Well, good morning everybody. I’m delighted to be here at Healthscope’s new Holmesglen Private Hospital. Dr Raja Barua, head of the emergency department here, out with Dr Rachel David, from Private Health Australia, Matthew Koce, representing the small insurers, the leaders from Healthscope and from…
The Turnbull Government is today announcing a wide ranging package of reforms to make private health insurance simpler and more affordable for Australians. We know that every dollar matters to Australian families and these reforms will get better value for families and make policies easier to understand. Private health insurance is an essential and valuable…
The Turnbull Government is investing over $200 million in world-leading medical research projects to improve the lives of patients battling cancers, mental health illnesses and chronic disease. In addition to this significant investment in medical research, the Turnbull Government is providing $5 million to CanTeen under the Medical Research Future Fund Accelerated Research program to…
The Turnbull Government is providing funding for four Men’s Sheds in the Flinders electorate as part of the National Shed Development Program. The New Peninsula, Safety Beach-Dromana, Cranbourne-Casey, Peninsula North and Junction Village Men’s Sheds will receive thousands of dollars’ worth of funding to help purchase equipment, undertake facility upgrades and provide materials for community…
SUBJECTS: Health and medical research. E&OE… PRIME MINISTER: I’m here with Greg Hunt, surrounded by so much medical talent, we’re going to hear from in a moment. But I just want to say how inspired we’ve been by the courage of the young people here who are battling with and beating cancer, with the love…
More than one thousand part-pensioners in the seat of Flinders will have their Pensioner Concession Card (PCC) reinstated from this week. These former part-pensioners lost the card in January as a consequence of reforms to the pension assets test, which were designed to make the pension system more affordable and sustainable for the future. “Those…
More than 920 Australians each year will benefit from affordable access to a new medicine for leukaemia and lymphoma patients. Ibrutinib (sold as Imbruvica®) would normally cost $187,390 on average per course of treatment, putting it beyond the reach of most patients. This $466 million listing on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme will save patients hundreds…