People on higher incomes without private health insurance don’t seem to be swayed by financial incentives, our research shows.
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It can be hard to work out what calculations to make when deciding on private health. So we asked a health economist to break it down.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Nicholas Klomp about the week in Australian politics.
The government is pinning its hopes on making this election all about tax – casting itself as champion of lower tax and Labor as signed up to what Morrison dubs the “high tax club”.
Treasurer Scott Morrison will argue that a stronger budget outlook means the increase in the Medicare levy is no longer required.
Private health insurance premiums are set to rise again. These 14 charts (well, technically 10 charts and four tables) look at some of the reasons why health insurance premiums keep going up and up.
If in the event the tax relief became an election promise, rather than pre-election money in the pocket, would people be sceptical?
Senators should consider how repayment thresholds vary depending on family circumstances, the impacts on taxes and how long students will be saddled with debt.
With its recent budget changes, the government is proposing a rise in marginal tax rates across a wide band of middle incomes and a marginal tax rate cut for the top.
The fund is nothing more than a rebadging exercise in the hope people might think it is a new policy. And it’s being used to airbrush public hospitals out of the Medicare picture.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, School of Economics and Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Economics, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney