Become a Champion for the Rebate and Register Your Support
Australians currently enjoy the benefits of a strong, balanced health care system. Means-testing the 30% Rebate on Private Health Insurance will put that at risk.
If you choose to subscribe and join the team, we will provide you with regular up-to-date information about private health insurance and health policy, as well as suggesting ways you can help work to keep your 30% rebate. The information you provide will allow health insurance funds that are members of Private Healthcare Australia to contact you, should your support for private health insurance be necessary. No information will be given out to anyone other than those health funds which are members of Private Healthcare Australia without your permission.
Be an active member of the Keep Your 30% Rebate team today, and help protect your 30% rebate.
Indicate whether you would be willing to assist Private Healthcare Australia in actively promoting policies such as the retention of the 30% rebate on private health insurance and other policies that protect your entitlement to choose private health care.
Comments
We need this rebate kept! Ms Plibersek needs to listen to what people are saying (and not the govt). Many, many families will opt out of private health – because of the huge cost & the public system will crumble under the strain.
So the health minister, Tanya Plibersek wants to means test the health insurance rebate and says it’s not appropriate for lower and middle income Australians to be subsidising the health insurance of millionaires. My family has 2 incomes, 5 kids, a mortgage and will have our rebate cut under her plans – and I am certainly not a millionaire (or even close). And I am quite sure lower and middle Australia is not subsidising my health care. In fact when we go to hosital we use private hospitals – so public beds are available for those who genuinely can’t afford health cover.
I’d go so far as to suggest that if my family and the many families like mine chose not to have private cover – but instead relied on the public system, Ms Plibersek’s lower and middle income Australians would either pay a lot more in the form of the compulsory Medicare levy or God forbid, wait even longer for the free treatment the Government is supposed to provide – or most likely both.
I’m afraid Ms Plibersek has been spending way to much time with the Government spin doctors. My $3600 per year health cover premium (paid out of my pocket) eases the financial burden on the Government and in fact helps keeps Medicare affordable for lower and middle income Australians who cannot afford, or choose not to have private cover.
Imagine the load on the public health system if even a fraction of health fund members decide they can no longer afford private cover and will rely instead on free care-already those worst affected by an overloaded system are those least able to help themselves and that group will just grow larger; these proposed budget savings will ultimately cost the government more when more people decide that health cover is just too costly. It may shift the burden to the states but ultimately it will result in a lower standard of living for more people-a federal and at the same time a very personal problem.
This minority government of Labor and their Masters the Greens and Turncoat Independants, have NO mandate to bring in new taxes. Nor indeed to essentialy decimate the Health Fund Industry.
These people should, in a just society, be braught to book for their failure in a duty of care to the Australian People. ALL Public Servants are accountable in one form or other for their actions. These so called Leaders of Australia are Public Servants Only. Well paid I grant you from our taxes. Having set up the system by themselves to this extent. However. When it is all said and done, future history will see them for what they are. A do anything to meet a Green agenda whether towns and businesses and people close; or not. They do not care. And that is the extent of it.The rebate should be preserved to protect the viability of the private health system
THe more people who have private health insurance then allows those who truly can not afford private health to have access to the public system. TOo many people are discouraged by paying for both systems and do not understand that the public system is suffering and should not be used as an alternative for after hours gp service.
14 February 2012
please keep the rebate, the older people in our society need to be able to have the confidence , in knowing that we have privet health care when needed, I am 81yrs, and a pensioner,My husband is ww2 veteran, a gold card holder, this is the reason that I can afford to have private health cover, I will not be able to be covered, if we lose the rebate. act for all the pensioners who need to be covered with health insurance. thank you