Health Insurance News

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will soon investigate more than 20 million international visa holders and foreign students, according to a recent media release from the organisation. Over the next three years they'll use data-matching techniques to identify tax avoidance, superannuation non-compliance and other related incidences.

The Labour party has come out swinging at health insurance funds. They called yearly premium increases aggressive and claimed health funds made billions in profit every year. Firstly, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority statistics put total profits of all health funds at just over $1.2 billion. Secondly, premium increases aren't an aggressive move to increase profit - they're quite the opposite.

Basic cover is an essential part of the complex private health insurance market, and a product of high value to those who use it. Despite that fact, it has come under fire in the media recently with some industry commentators questioning it's value.

With that in mind, let's have a closer look at why the market needs basic health insurance, and why so many customers value it.

Building an efficient corporate health insurance plan for your employees can appear challenging at first, but it doesn't have to be. You just need to know where to begin. To understand where you should get started improving your corporate health plan, you need to conduct an audit.