Private health insurance rebates: Are they working to increase uptake among older people?Our Resear

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Private health insurance rebates: Are they working to increase uptake among older people?Our Resear

15 Aug 2022

On the other hand, by paying $6 billion in rebates and $3 billion to cover seniors’ income declines with age, and they may private inpatient services.¹ One of the primary goals be particularly concerned with high out-of-pocket of the provision of subsidies for PHI is to alleviate the expenses as private patients. [...] Among seniors in the lowest percentage point increase in take-up in the first income group (income less than $13,171 as of 2004 in two years of the policy. [...] These elasticity estimates are calculated based on the estimated effects of higher rebates in the second year of the policy (financial year 2007), which tend to be the largest effects. [...] The impact of private hospital The sample includes 1,612,160 person-year insurance on the utilization of hospital care in Australia. [...] This Research Insight represents the opinions of the author(s) and is not intended to represent the views of Melbourne 16.
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