Is $6000 enough? The harsh reality of swapping public for private

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Is $6000 enough? The harsh reality of swapping public for private

Jacqueline Cumming
Hospital door doctor CR Jose Luis Carrascosa on iStock
People transferring their public health funding allocation to private insurance might be locked out of some services due to insufficient cover [Image: Jose Luis Carrascosa on iStock]

ACT Party leader David Seymour suggests letting people take their share of public health funding to spend on private insurance. Jacqueline Cumming says it sounds simple, but would it work?

Even if only 5 per cent of people took up such an offer, this funding loss would be unprecedented In his recent State of the Nation address, Davi