Cash-strapped Australians are reconsidering their private health insurance. Some are opting out or downgrading their cover, leaving insurers scrambling to design new packages for each generation. Meanwhile, they’re also facing surging costs and tense relationships with their partner-hospitals.
Tim Bennett is Finder's senior health insurance publisher. For over ten years he's reported on news, politics, finance, and other topics as a journalist and radio presenter. Tim regularly appears as a health insurance expert on programmes like Sunrise and SBS News and in publications including The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Courier-Mail.
Brenton Baldwin is the head of policy and research at the Members Health Fund Alliance, a peak industry body for an alliance of 24 health insurance funds that are not-for-profit, part of a member-owned group, or community-based.
Heidi is an Australian writer, whose human behaviour studies led to her fascination with what makes us weirdly human. With a career that’s combined communications, community work, and corporate roles, she’s campaigned for children’s rights in Asia, designed social programmes for vulnerable Australians, and headed up a sales team in the fashion sector. Sometimes you’ll find her in a remote village, quizzing locals about the rituals and traditions that make them uniquely them.