Private Health Safety and Quality
Australia’s Private Healthcare Funds want to ensure a better healthcare experience for all their members.
Safety and quality in the private system
We are committed to providing Australians with better quality and safety in the healthcare system.
Not only does the private sector deliver shorter waiting times, shorter lengths of stay and higher productivity, but most importantly it provides a safer healthcare environment.
Promoting safety and quality in the Australian health system
The Private Healthcare Australia (PHA) is focused on enhancing the value of private health insurance and are concerned about ensuring your safety when you are admitted to hospital.
Safety is a major consideration when you’re admitted to hospital and no-one wants to contemplate an unplanned or unexpected readmission.
This section provides information about Research undertaken by Private Healthcare Australia as well presents summaries of studies such as the Australian Productivity Commission report on Private and Public Hospital Re-admission Rates and the Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical who disseminates information to improve the quality of healthcare.
Comments
I certainly wouldn’t be able to afford it and neither will the generation of today (my kids) let alone other generations! What is this government thinking? They should be held liable for the deaths that will occur due do this madness. Get a grip! What else do they want to abolish or increase….
it is now in our late forties and fifties that screening checks really become vital. Two members of my family have had bowel cancer, neither had regular screening tests done. Our private cover allows us to have these checks done promptly and regularly as private patients not waiting in excess of 6 months each time for a spot as a public patient. We need our private cover but without the rebate not sure that it will be possible to keep and I dread to think of the results of not having it
Imagine the huge number of people who currently have Private Health Insurance, who will no longer be able to afford it.
If the Labour Government removes the rebate for Private Health Insurance it will result in a major burden to our Public Health System which is already in a shambles.
Whoever has recommended this has obviously not done their homework or
required medical attention.I have been in a private health Insurance for over 40 years and if the government abolishes the rebate I will have no choice but to pull out as I will definitely no be able to afford it as I am retired and on a part pension.I’m over 70 yo and at my age anything can go wrong which will require hospital admission and another burden on the public hospital system.
At 73 years of age I would rather have private cover than go out for a meal. That is how important private cover is to me. Everyday I hear of persons requiring urgent treatment waiting on lists. I have had private cover since 1955 and I do not intend stopping now, when I have needed and may need it again more so. Once many people pull out the premiums will increase, what then? What hope for us Julia?
Surely it makes sense to give a government rebate, rather than people not being covered and costing the government a whole lot more to keep them healthy.
Of course it makes sense to give a government rebate, rather than people not being covered and costing the government a whole lot more to keep them healthy. Therefore, the government has some other motive in threatening to withdraw the rebate. I wonder what that motive could be??
If government premiums taken away definately will have to pull out of private health – we are in late 60′s early 70′s in age. Also if the premiums rise to much each year will have to rethink our situation – that is to pull out. As the years go by the harder it gets to make the payments.
We have always had private health insurance but if the Goverment removed rebate we would have to reconsider We are only few years away from retirement we would then be a farther burden on public health system
I am currently unemployed, looking for work and my wife is doing only some casual relief work. I am continuing to pay my PHI to ensure that we don’t lose it. If we were to lose the Government rebate, we could not afford to continue our PHI, as I am already paying the extra penalty for joining at a late age.
We have already been seriously considering whether or not we can afford to have private health insurance. My wife is retired and I will be coming up for retirement soon…if the Government rebate is scrapped then that will be the decider for us as financially it is becoming more and more of a burden to remain in a private health fund and we wiould be another older couple burdening the overloaded government health system.
If the government rebate is taken away I will be forced to leave private health as we will not be to afford the premiums
I would really struggle to pay the premiums if the government rebate is taken away and may be forced to pull out of the fund which would be a real shame as I have been a member for over 40 years and am now getting a stage in my life where I probably need it more than ever. I really don’t want to be a burden on the government health system as I believe it should be purely for the pensioners and unemployed.
10 December 2011
As an 80 yer old pensioner, and having had private medical insurance all my life – well before Medicare, I can definitely say I would now not be able to afford private cover if the rebate is withdrawn.