Read the latest news articles about health insurance - get up-to-date consumer information and hear about the latest health insurance issues to hit the media.
Health insurance too expensive for young adults
Crisis over private health insurance medical gap
Private health insurance dropouts will pay
Roxon ploughs on with health insurance means test
Aussies 'will drop' health insurance, says report
Health Minister Roxon greenlights health insurance hike
Health insurance premiums to rise by 5 per cent
Health insurance hike double inflation rate
Private health insurance premiums to rise 5.6% on 1 April
Private health insurance versus public healthcare
High cost of giving birth puts a strain on the public system
Australians pay more out-of-pocket costs than other nations
Health fund Bupa survey finds Australia a nation of boozers
Australians' poor oral health is due to costs, says survey
No substantial change in public hospital surgery waiting times
Baby boom slows down due to hospital costs
Government allocates $55m to e-health records sites
Our surgeons' bills more painful than in Britain
Weight loss surgery rates increase
Free hospital care is unsustainable
Joint replacements: seniors bone up on agile life
Palliative care allows a dignified death
How to be an empowered patient
Do private hospital promote caesarean births?
Labor spends $2M on MyHospitals website
Patients 12% more likely to die in public hospitals
Health funds to raise premiums due to 'claim inflation'
Health fund launches health coaching service for members
Australians missing millions in savings from comparison shopping
Examining private health insurance: is it worth it?
Medicare Levy to rise as health insurance rebate is ditched
Health insurance rebate means test battle back on
How to get value from private health insurance
Health insurance only one solution to health puzzle
Public health system loses on private patients
Co-payments keep patients at bay: healthcare reform
Is your health insurance good value?
Cutting the cost of private health cover
Private health insurance to rise at double the inflation rate
Health insurance to cost more - Roxon
Health funds set to raise health insurance premiums by around 6%
Is private health really worth it?
Health insurance to rise by about 6%
Health insurance premiums tipped to rise by estimated 6-7 per cent
Roxon takes tough line over health fund premium rises
Private health rebate helps the public system
Private health funds in 'good shape' says Federal Govt
Voters back health insurance means test, but support is lukewarm
Price pain for health insurance patients requiring medical devices
Senator Joyce undecided on the health insurance rebate means test
Health insurance premiums set to surge - but by how much?
Rudd to push health insurance means test
Medibank Private health insurance premiums likely to rise
Health insurance restrictions hit patients with expensive bills
Medibank slashes heart operations or hip replacements health insurance customers
Demand for obesity surgery soars, but lifestyle training the best value
Health fund axes obesity cover
Medibank members face cut in cover
Health insurance to cost more - HBF health fund
Health fund NIB cuts benefits for high demand treatments
Full fees at new Medicare Private stand-alone clinics
Coalition vows to sell health fund Medibank Private
Health fund NIB says DNA tests will benefit 'health behaviour'
You bet your life: NIB's cheap DNA test could prove costly
Tony Abbott's health plan won't work, says Nicola Roxon
Answer to out-of-pocket medical bills could be a health credit card
MyHospitals website goes live despite concerns
Roxon pushes for means test as 10m Australians covered by private health
Health funds: means-testing health insurance rebate will 'stretch public system'
Health insurance means test block opens hole in the budget
HEALTH REFORM: Rudd's health revolution
HEALTH REFORM: Rudd's health deal must pass real-world test
HEALTH REFORM: Patients in public hospitals could see benefits soon
HEALTH REFORM: Rudd's health deal - what's in it for you
Universal healthcare in Australia may become unaffordable
Senate vote on health insurance rebate means testing provides poll trigger
Senate rejects health rebate changes
Senate block 'hampers return to surplus
Reform blueprint ignores dental care funding
Kevin Rudd targets hospital waiting lists with maximum time limits
Rudd announces $30.9b funding takeover of public hospitals
Senate provides election trigger with health insurance
Labor gets another early poll trigger with health insurance
A better reform of health insurance
Rudd faces defeat on health insurance rebates
Private health insurance rebate may trigger vote
Axe health insurance subsidies for rich, Swan says
Rudd won't rule out election over health insurance rebate means test
Labor says health insurance premiums will rise under coalition