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What Price For Your Health?



What Price For Your Health?

How do you put a value good health? For many it is priceless. So how much are you prepared to pay to seek the best medical advice available?

Private health insurance is one of those lifestyle choices all us of face.

Do you go with the system and use the health safety net that the public health-care program provides to all Australians? Or seek the extra security and choice provided by private health insurance?

About a third of all adult Australians have private health insurance with the industry worth $5 billion dollars a year.

But that figure is likely to increase. From July 1 there have been changes introduced to the cost of private health care and many people have rushed in to take advantage of the savings.

The initiative of the Federal Government has been to try and increase the number of people covered by private insurance. The great fear is that as the population ages the public health system will not be able to cope with the increases in pressure an aging population brings.

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