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Industry Project Report on the Australian Private Health Fund Industry
Date Submitted: 03/25/2002 22:58:36
Executive Summary
Private Health Insurance occupies a significant but ambiguous position within Australia's health care system. It is a voluntary facility for private funding of hospital care and ancillaries, sitting alongside a compulsory tax-financed public system (Medicare) that is available to all. It is also constrained by regulations designed to pursue similar non-discriminatory access objectives to those in the public system
Declining membership numbers, particularly among the young and healthy, has led to concerns about
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