RealFeedApp Government removes extra private health insurance rebate for seniors
Analysis suggests a pensioner carve-out would protect comfortable part-pensioners while missing younger families who are struggling most.
- Field
- business and funding
- What they did
- Researchers analyzed the government's proposal to remove the extra private health insurance rebate for people aged 65 and over to simplify the system and improve fairness.
- Why it matters
- Their new analysis suggests that excluding pensioners from these changes would not make the policy fairer, as it would mostly protect comfortable part-pensioners while missing younger families who are struggling the most.
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