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Health Fund Price Rises
Saturday March 8, 2008
AFTER years in opposition railing against the Coalition's tolerance of hefty annual increases in private health premiums, the new federal Labor Government has found itself having to do precisely the same. When the health funds fronted up with their latest log of claims, Health Minister Nicola Roxon made a show of indignation and sent them back to sharpen their pencils. Some of them reduced their demands as a result. But despite the huffing and puffing, the private health industry has been granted ...