Stephen Duckett
speaker
921 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2006
last heard May 2019
Stephen Duckett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
It's all very well to have th you know, th for us to be at Gratton Institute to be able to calculate that.
But, you know, if a clinician comes along to a manager and says, Look, we've got this issue and so on, the the manager needs to say, look,
This sort these sorts of complications cost this hospital this amount of money.
We want to help you be and there's a business case here to improve quality so it actually benefits the patient and the hospital's bottom line at the same time.
Health Report · Out-of-pocket costs and the future of private health insurance · 28 May 2018
podcast
I think what we're seeing are are problems in the in the private health insurance and the private hospital system generally.
It's not an immediate thing that's just happened yesterday.
It's something that's been accumulating over the years.
And though the number of people with private health insurance has been basically stable at a little bit of a dip recently, what's been happening is people have been dropping the level of cover.
So as private health insurance premiums have gone up, people have kept their private health insurance, but they've dropped.
They've started taking out products with copayments and they've started taking out products with exclusion clauses.
So they're not covered for orthopedics or they're not covered for maternity or they're not covered for something else.
One of the criticisms there's been a vast increase in the number of complaints to the uh private health insurance ombudsman.
And one of the things uh people complain about is the small print that they don't realise what they're not covered for.
I'd say they front up to a private hospital and they suddenly discover that they're not covered or they're not fully covered for the operation they are about to have.
And so I think this is leading to real increase in dissatisfaction for the insurance they have got.
believe.
So over the last twenty, thirty years there's been a much greater focus on waiting times in the public sector, and waiting times are um improving in many states.
And of course, one of the reasons people took out private health insurance in the past was they wanted to bypass the public sector waiting list.
And so now the waiting times are much better.
Public hospitals are in a sense much more competitive.
Showing 201–220 of 921 · page 11 of 47
← Previous
Next →