{"id":15999,"date":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/bad-news-if-you-have-private-health-insurance\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T00:00:00","slug":"bad-news-if-you-have-private-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/bad-news-if-you-have-private-health-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad news if you have private health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Private health insurance premiums will rise from April after Health Minister Greg Hunt signed off on an average 4.84 per cent increase.<\/h3>\n<p>The hike will cost Aussie families up to an extra $200 a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy counsel would be that people should stay in private health insurance but obviously people have got to make their own decisions,\u201d Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told 3AW on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when household budgets are tight every additional cost hurts, there&#8217;s no question about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Turnbull said the rise was a result of the increasing costs of health services &#8212; \u201clabour costs and also the increased cost of health technology\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Opposition health spokeswoman Catherine King slammed the rise\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Australians are paying more than ever for their private health insurance but they are getting less and less,\u201d she said, \u201cand the Liberals have done absolutely nothing to help families with the costs of health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis $200 increase comes on top of some of the highest premium increases on record, spiralling complaints against private health insurers and Australians increasingly discovering they are simply not covered for basic inclusions in their policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/the-next-adelaide-suburbs-to-cop-staged-blackouts\"><strong>\u201cHIT LIST\u201d &#8212; THE NEXT ADELAIDE SUBURBS TO COP STAGED BLACKOUTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/fuming-penbo-lines-up-tom-koutsantonis-over-energy-mess\"><strong>\u201cUSELESS\u201d &#8212; FUMING PENBO LINES UP KOUTSANTONIS OVER ENERGY MESS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private health insurance premiums will rise from April after Health Minister Greg Hunt signed off on an average 4.84 per cent increase. 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