People before private health funds

The Minister has rejected the private health insurers’ wild bid to slug their own members with a 6 per cent premium hike during this cost-of-living crisis.

These funds made record profits in recent years while campaigning for endless subsidies from NSW taxpayers.

Last year the government took action to make sure private insurers paid their bills in full when using public hospitals – saving NSW $140 million per annum.

The NSW Liberal and National Parties backed the big health insurers as they tried to continue avoiding paying their bills.

Mark Speakman should now either promise to reintroduce taxpayer subsidies for the big health insurers, or he should instead apologise for aiding and abetting their disgraceful misinformation campaign.