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O.P. Hi, when I turned 30 years old, I entered BAUPA to prevent the tax surcharge thing that came in... several years later, it just went up and went up 4-5x... I actually got seriously hurt a couple of time during this but unneeded operation, my health insurance was 110% futile and I'm kind of sick, I was wasting all that cash on this Pontzi system manufacturing company... about all his property for my tooth exams and contacts, but that's probably ¼

a. i have nothing, but potential maxillofacial work i just just am paying for... every coverage i see is generally a wasted time rort for serious dentistry... despite recent lesions, im really fit and healthy & doesn't need coverage... i could be paying my own dentistry & ophthalmic related cost as well. skaketheclouds types... min commitment i can get away with to avoiding the burden, all you need is an appropriate level o hospitals coverage.

It is possible to void your extra (dentist, optician, etc.) and simply keep your essential health insurance to prevent this. Though there is no requirement to provide coverage, there may be fiscal advantages for you if you make over $90,000 by eliminating the Medicare Levy Surcharge. It'?s Martin writing... ...by evading the Medicare Levy Surcharge.

Obviously I did some math on this last year because I got to the same point as the surgery (except I've been paid top coverage since I was 23). Following a great deal of bewildering math work, I came to the conclusion that the surcharge was lower than my coverage (even at Bupa).

They need to enumerate the medicinal things you need in a year, work out a ball park chart, what the disbursement sums are depending on your schedule (different schedule has different percentage rates of fees covered), find out whether these disbursements are more or less the amount of coverage you are paying and if less if that differential is less than the levy itself for your circumstance.

Seems complex, but I chose the simple (but costly) way to do this, which was to make the coverage payment according to their recommendation for one year, summarize all the monies they gave me, tick off the health insurance issue at fiscal period, and see if the two agreed. It' Martin writes... it can have fiscal advantages for you if you make over $90k by avoid the Medicare Levy Surcharge.

If you don't make a great deal of cash, you don't really have to take care of your own health insurance unless you plan to get ill or for some good cause don't want to use the system. Being kinda like auto insurance you are paying it, but hoping you don't have to use it.

I am 43 years old and have never claimed my medical insurance. In order to go through the system, I see a waiting period of 12 - 18 month. Because I have personal health insurance, it'll be done next weekend. Personal health insurance repaid $0, prepared for the beginning of next year' s campaign.

Neither of these has anything to do with health, they are just work-related injuries, so we have health insurance. Insurances mean you pay for security. When I was singles and I didn't do sport or had a minimum amount of risks, I would probably get the simplest extra.

These calculators only take into account whether an insurance policy saves you a lot of taxpayers money. I and my spouse have a common revenue above the Medicare Levy Surge Barrier, so we are obliged to continue to supplement without paying PHI. An absolute PHI limit is almost as high per year as the supplement, and coverage of the base clinic is so restricted that almost nothing is insured.

The taxes I am saving by having it, I would be spending on a totally valueless insurance policy. What do you mean? I would rather be paying the MLS and at least help maintain the state system than blowing good cash on fundamental hospitals coverage. In fact, I can see some benefits in the higher levels of coverage, as obviously more can be demanded, but the costs for these schemes are unheard of.

In my calculation, I do not include extra and claim for extra in my calculation, as the extra coverage does not help to avoid MLS and you can have extra covered without having a clinic. These calculators only take into account whether an insurance policy saves you a lot of taxpayers' money. What is more, you can calculate the amount of your taxes. In this way, insurance premium at the demographic scale is reduced to a bare minimum. 4.

However, the goverment resolved to adjust personal health insurance so that most individuals could pay for it when they wanted it, regardless of their circumstance. On the one hand, there are all the other nations in the whole wide globe that (like Australia and, unlike the USA, Australia) have general health insurance. Nobody would offer a health insurance policy if it was going to guarantee losing out.

On the one hand, there are all the other nations in the whole wide globe that (like Australia and, unlike the USA, Australia) have general health insurance. What? I was not referring to general health insurance, but to personal health insurance in a land that already has a good health system. secarahx is writing.....

Mr President, I was talking about health insurance in a state that already has a good system of health care. First, they don't have a good health care system. Second, they do not have general health insurance. In this way, insurance premium at the demographic scale is reduced to a bare minimum. 4. One thing I reject is that I am "forced" into completely pointless reporting, and in doing so I am basically taking cash out of the state system by preventing MLS.

It' s no problem for me to pay for an insurance plan that actually pays off, but a simple clinic is anything but that. As I said, I would rather be spending the monies that contribute to the system, because I have to do it one way or another, but I am punished for it.

The general point here, I think, is whether PHI should even be there - i.e. whether it will save the budget or actually make it work. Considering that the key clinic outcomes - not "comfort" but something like the death rates - should be the same in government and personal health care schemes, it is important that Privat Health justifies its stance with something that more affluent individuals can choose, thereby reducing government outlays.

A lot of folks think that the judges are out (can't really comment). Generally, if you think that PHI DOES saves the state budget, then the attendance must be high enough to distribute the risks to a large populace of humans, e.g. LHC and MLS as lashes, and AGR as carrots.

Undoubtedly, there are other ways to share the burden and lower the costs of PHI and thus establish a lower level of involvement than drug killers - things like the exclusion of PHI's treatments for cancers, so that people can be cared for in society (which most are already honest). One of the best government schemes in the whole wide open space.

Medicare/Medicaid's US government system is completely destroyed and its government clinics are often *awful*. That'?s what you do for most folks in the US. A lot of basic hospital covers are actually quite good. One of the keys questions is whether they address the little understanding of "All other MBS". We do not care about the rip-off, which is PHI, but then we are living in a non-urban area where there are no waitlists, so the problem does not come into the picture.

It is an insurance, like a motor insurance or a household insurance. I recently had a health problem that requires an operation. It' s not an emergency, so the community health clinic didn't even put me on the schedule because there are so many other patients awaiting an operation. In the meantime, my health problem is getting more and more serious.... Wobble-wobble writing.....

It is an insurance, like a motor insurance or a household insurance. It' s no longer characteristic of "insurance" if you either buy it or get a reduced rate of duty and now have additional shit because you don't have it. No, I haven't been in hospitals for years, and I don't envy myself to pay taxes on the perfect base, it does support things like the state system (the fact that polls are wasting everything is a different story). skaketheclouds types.....

C. Thats not a for or against part on health insurance - what you do is up to you. It is important to me not to annotate the health insurance politics issue. This means that the suit has to find out. All I want to do is help empower empathise with others so they can make their own decisions.

1. There are two kinds of insurance - hospitals (for "inpatient services") and extras (dental, visual, etc.) To prevent the levy - you must take out "adequate" insurance for hospitals. Quite certainly all of Australia's recent retailing policy (i.e. not the visitor coverage of visitor policy abroad) is seen as appropriate to prevent the discount.

Be aware just that some of these entry-level hospital coverages are based on what they offer cover for and what the goverment is doing is branding them as " crack". I' m not sure if I would go that far, but I think you should consider exactly what they cover before you buy one.

They don't have to get both the extra and the hospital: Consider this - your medical insurance is for your soul and the " just in case scenario ", the extra are for service that you know you will need due to problems; dentistry because of tooth problems or chiropractic because you do sport, etc.

Important thing to do is to repeat your needs and then select a coverage level that suits it. If you are younger, you probably don't want to get coverage for things like replacement hips and knees, kidney disease, etc.. Check your coverage at least once every 12 month.

Change in the amount of cover: It' very simple to get mad and just choose to destroy your shelter. There are two major kinds of dentistry: Orthodontics can also have its own covering in some insurance plans. When you lower your insurance limit and then a few short weeks later choose to "return" to your old insurance plan, most insurance carriers are likely to forego your 2-month waiting period and this means that you would be on your higher general dentist limit.

But if you give up or reduce your large mouthguard - it would only be refilled or available after 12 months - no difference how long you have been with the insurer. Easy explanation for this - providing service under the 12-month delay are the costly big-tickets and not having to delay can be seen as a tactic of predation, and therefore the insurance industry's rules prevent insurance companies from doing without them.

Also, it will cost the firm dough if you just came across the high coverage and asserted piles and then let them drop. The needs of each individual differ from those that you need to look at for what you want to be insured for. There' s no point in asking for general advice. It is recommended that you speak directly with the insurance companies, write down the name of the policies you are interested in, and then go to privatehealth.gov. to get the relevant SIS (Standard Information Statement). This means that most products and the relevant limit will be offered in the same format regardless of the supplier, and it will help to try to make comparisons and contrasts.

It is not the evangelium and I think talk to your ISP and some of the others if you are not satisfied with your coverage. Keep in mind that it is very simple to let go of your coverage, but if you then want to collect it again after a while, there may be waits etc. that you need to take into account. Q - Why do costs increase every year?

Is this just an indiscriminate "we want more of your money" raise? When you want the tech answer* (the health care bills and rates increases are off, but they are somewhere open to the general public, cannot be disturbed when verifying the actual values): Let's assume that health care spending rises by 3% per year (more than inflation).

However, folks degrade their policy, but don't really reduce disbursements. This means less cash entering (downgrades), but not really disbursements. Others expenses such as merchandising, staff expenses, etc. (which are publicly available for each funds are referred to as the "Management Expense Ratio") are actually only 5% of the overall awards.

My conclusion was that the surcharge was below my own coverage (also at Bupa). That' all you need to know & the best advice you will get. Personally, I think the vast majority ofthe folks (especially if single) are a little stupid for pay for PHI rather than subsidising the loyalty that leads down the pathway of a horrible US-style health care system.

And I think Australia would be better off if more folks just soaked it up and pay the supplement. You are the only one who knows that you can assess for yourself whether what you will end up pay is "worth", what benefits you have from health insurance. Are there health insurance compare pages that let me check a checkbox for "cancer" and "heart" and show option that are Genuine Policy and not junk-Policy?

Are there health insurance compare pages that let me check a checkbox for "cancer" and "heart" and show option that are Genuine Policy and not Junk Policy? The way the goverment does things also covers PHI product treatment, not disease. Eg Chemo/Radio is therefore a treatment so that you can find items that specifically address them.

However, if you have eyes cancers and need to open your eyes, you need to have major eye surgery on your mating. That means the only way to be sure you're "covering for cancer" is to have the top hospital. Shaketheclouds writes... sarahx writes.... Nobody would offer a health insurance policy if it was going to guarantee losing out.

The NIB Top Tools 85% lost the business nearly $2 million a month until they tuned it back to 75% with lower performance within the first year of release. It'?s not just from heaven that cash falls. Except when I am intending to make a gain out of them through some of their stupid extra politics, which I generally do.

Never want to be in a situation where I cannot guarantee the best health result for my ancestor. Maintain 12-18 month waiting on your local public system. Thanks goodness for my Ph. D., I will now have my 9 month back home now ( Reha also paid for by my health insurance), instead of 2 years further by the general population ½ with more room for long-term problems.

I' m only praising our system of government, but it has its limitations. Concerning the possibility to choose our own physician in the clinic, none of us has any kind of relation to a medical expert at the time, only to our general practitioner, so what is the problem? For the past 12 years, the full cost of the extra service provided under our plans would have been on aggregate less than $20,000, which we could have readily afforded out of our pockets, and we would now have over $40,000 in saving for every health hazard.

Medicare will even cover 75% of the costs, you only cover the other 25% plus the contribution shortfall. Had you been saving your own cash, you could have done it like that. After all, wtf wits when you get these huge bonus raises every year and see no value for either cash or any sensible salary increase besides moving to a higher control group.

With no non-urgent hospitalizations, at least $30,000 will be spent there in another 10 years. To complete the picture, every Medicare case or critique is FULLY covered by Medicare. So, you have to cover 100% of these expenses. That would normally be $10k plus. If you went on this system in open - unlikely this would be allowed if you are living in an municipal center - that's still $400/day.

By the way, I payed the yearly amount on March 31, which is $135 per months or about $1625, so I am insured for a whole year with a top clinic and top extra services. You' re covering for a clinic I want (Cabrini). I also have a surplus of $1000 for the clinic, unlike most others around $500.

When I end up in hospitals at the tender age of 37, $500 is the least of my troubles. First, Bupa outsmarted me with extra, I had to choose a certain amount of things, like Chiró vs Maior Dun. All I want is for this device known as the Okklusal rail (night watchman) to buy article 965 and the discount on the upper extra for the gap between this and the lower extra paid, basically $250 back from $500.

You just seem to be covering just about everything under the Sun, for the precise same price I paid before, I have a lot more Peace of mind and I calculate if I beat the chiro/massage/physio quite a bit harder in the next 12 month, maybe get some orthoses as well, I'm late for a check back ogastroscopy, I calculate I can get about $1000 back in treatments and material.

As we have over 10 years uninterrupted coverage, our charge is 0% and possibly the absences are zero. That means, if we take up my insurance again within 6 month, there will be no absences and no new waits. We' re not too worried because we' re both in good health, eating and moving around in a responsible way.

So we can visit the whole PHI thing again before 1094 workingdays are up, but since we'll be completely Medicare-run anyway, we're not too anxious. Finally, the health savings will have enough space to pay for all the personal care we need that is not provided by Medicare.

Isn' that just if your surgeries are done in a home clinic? If you've gone out in the open - unlikely that would be allowed if you lived in an inner city center - that's still $400/day. I am talking about going privately in a government clinic for non-urgent operations without PHI, but to pay out of my own pockets.

In my opinion, the response is no and the patients in a government clinic are primarily on the list of needs. In my opinion, the response is no and the patients in a government clinic are primarily on the list of needs. Right is the reply no, unless the government department has decided to let it go anyway.

It' s in the back of the house, compensating my mortgages so I can save even more time. I talked to guys who underwent operations of various types, and they still spent tens of millions of dollars of their own cash. This is a few years of savings, but it's not a poor idea if you're willing to resort to the state system. Rebx777 is writing......

It' like any insurance, it's a game of chance. It is likely that the overwhelming majority of individuals are paying more than they will ever get back. When I was working in a privately owned clinic, I saw guys coming in anticipation of a day's surgery and ending up in ICU instead. Since everyone keeps saying the most fair advice is do your totals & consider if personal insurance works out really well for you individually.

Usually folks don't even mind figuring out how much more they' going to pay to get the additional fee for Medicine (from me it's about $650). On a personal level, I fully endorse this, but I am very prejudiced against the governments that are putting in place the conditions in which we are subsidizing an entirely useless health care sector and only one way to increase health spending and earn funds for individual physicians and underwriters.

It'?s more like my cash went to health insurance. On a personal level, I fully endorse this, but I am very prejudiced against the governments that are putting in place the conditions in which we are subsidizing an entirely useless health care sector and only one way to increase health spending and earn funds for individual physicians and underwriters.

It'?s more like my cash went to health insurance. And the whole point of the sector is to *save* the government's cash and take affluent citizens out of the state system for optional operations. A few current dates if you are interested:- Government is spending around $108Bn on health financing; - Government is spending around $5. 7Bn on bonus cuts by AGR; - PHI is spending around $15Bn on health financing (indirectly financed by individuals who pay premiums); - individuals are spending around $28Bn on health financing (note that most of this cannot be financed by PHI as it is prime health care); - Workcover/Transport accidents make up a further $10Bn of financing.

Naturally, nothing is convincing those who are against privatization in general and for general policy and societal considerations, but at least business economics is rationally. Obviously I did some math on this last year because I got to the same point as the surgery (except I've been paid top coverage since I was 23).

Following a great deal of bewildering math work, I came to the conclusion that the supplement was lower than my coverage (even at Bupa). Anyone know when the cut-off pay applies, when your medical insurance pays off? Medicaid supplement is a big contributor to some at higher wages. What is a good yearly coverage for many PHI enterprises.......

And the whole point of the sector is to *save* the government's cash and take affluent individuals out of the state system for optional operations. What a lot of guys posting here who have a PHI but don't use it in a government clinic! I have no problems for the protocol if we have personal health services - but it should only be this personal (like the UK) if individuals can buy personal health services, good fortune for them.

What a lot of guys posting here who have a PHI but don't use it in a government clinic! My theorem is that if you shut down all the individual clinics, where would they go? So, to the government financed entirely by PHI and the indirect financing of privately owned clinics, you are taking pressures off the state system.

Theoretically, no one should use PHI in a government clinic, it is not intended for it. 2- As above - Because if it wasn't 60% financed by Medicare, it would be 100% financed by Medicare on the government wallet. Hello everyone, I've been baffled about personal health for years (I still don't have it) and have chosen to look at it again this weekend, but it all looks like fraud to me.

Ordering my contacts/glasses on-line, going to the Bali dental office, having an insurance for my medical expenses and being generally well. This year I busted my ankle and was Medicare backed and handled, all good. My answer is: Are there certain things that are not included in Medicare? Medicare covers all this?

Do you have everything insured under your own health insurance? It' possible to get indebted tens of millions of dollars just by being on Medicare? Is everything usually just taken out with additional periods of delay in comparison to privately insured health insurance? P.S... these personal health insurances are a gag. 100 percent optical coverage... yes, right side $200 a year.

My answer is: Are there certain things that are not included in Medicare? Medicare cover all this? Do you have everything insured under your own health insurance? When you get cancers, you'll probably end up in front of the people. Medicine almost completely wraps it up. Personal health only VERY RARLY uncovers high-priced non-PBS medications (which are not Medicare covered), and only in exceptional cases.

When you get cancers, you'll probably end up in front of the people. My answer is: Are there certain things that are not included in Medicare? Most of my family's insurance entitlements, I think, are either for the dental surgeon or the optician. If it is a good value for the costs depends on the longer run image, but at that point (as a 40 something person) I have reclaimed more from the health insurance than from the auto insurance.

There are many privat patient who have their own operation, rehabilitation and chemo/radio. However, much of her nursing is ambulatory, which we cannot cater for. We have the lowest priced health insurance to prevent health overruns. Well, my extra's about $430 a year. And I use health insurance for almost everything. When you are a someone who likes to need either Chiró or Phil isio or something else, rate which extra would be good for you.

It' always fun when folks are complaining that they're not getting their insurance back. Given that I was working for the underwriter at the case I knowing playing period the 3 gathering discharge she compensable playing period $120K on me. Wish I could say I didn't get my moneys back because I would also say I didn't get ill.

It' gonna take the insurance company about $25,000 that year. Self-insurance works when you don't get ill until you're older. Young recovering persons also become ill. One of the best government schemes in the whole wide open space. In fact, it is crucial for those with serious psychological problems. Our system is unbelievably congested and these are not problems that can "wait".

Everyone who has a mental illness for which they could be accepted (and daily treatment can be considered entry and insured) should have personal health. My decision was taken on the basis of the Ombudsman's Health Insurance Benefits Review. It is useful in that it gives you a break-down of the number of claims received by each insurer.

I' ve relied on official review as a guide, but most of them have stinking review. Recognition to the MEMBERS OWN Health Funds, who led me to the Ombudsman's review and helped me choose one for my particular needs, basing it on merit and relatively competitively priced. Inexpensive insurance is often the most costly long-term insurance.

When the BUPA amended its policy, I was on the brink of becoming a member of Australia Unity, a health insurance company owned by members. As I have been working for over 30 years for Personal Health, I would not care if I had my spare again! You want a breast thing, make sure you get your own health insurance.

When you have a baby, the system is probably better off - you just don't get proper screens. When you are seriously ill, then take yourself to a government clinic - because here you will probably end up dead and there they have the better/best equipment know-how anyway.

You want a breast thing, make sure you get your own health insurance. When did any money start covering breast augmentation? When you are seriously ill, then take yourself to a government clinic - because here you will probably end up dead and there they have the better/best equipment know-how anyway.

For non-emergency cases, your personal health insurance is more important than your outpatient energy, e.g. sturdy sore throat that requires either an operation or a stent, a blowing ACL, a worsening arthrosis that requires prosthetic replacements, or an inguinal hernias. It can be scary to wait for these in person! The PHI offers you the possibility of adherence to schedules, selection of surgeons and hospitals.

You have a real expert perform your procedures, as opposed to a real patients, where a prospective surgical doctor will try. PHI even offers you the opportunity to have a medical professional operate on you in an ER and jump into a home clinic if you are tired of being pushed.

When did any money start covering breast augmentation? That' for health insurance. The PHI will block the digits....