Health insurance and discounts for non-smokers? Policy gets in way ...

Insurance companies are cutting coverage to keep costs down. Wouldn?t it be better to charge healthier people lower premiums? Westfund Health executive Phillip Berner says bad policy stifles good health.

The government?s refusal to allow health insurance companies to offer different premiums to different people is hurting Australian health.

The spectre of ?managed care????where insurers determine what medical procedures are eligible for private coverage???has hung over the sector for decades. When the private health sector was dominated by mutual, not-for-profit health funds, the principle of health professionals

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Source: http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/03/20/why-health-insurance-companies-should-discriminate/

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