Ric Perna spent years at a factory making cancer-detection machines,unaware that a toxic workplace chemical was causing a terminal blood cancer to develop in his own body.
A quiet revolution is unfolding in Australian healthcare,and some doctors are not happy.
Health insurance is one of the most widely held financial products in Australia. It is also one of the least understood.
The health insurer has signed on for three more years as a Carlton sponsor as the club’s handling of its former president’s explicit photo scandal is scrutinised in the Supreme Court.
The policy you set up in your late 20s or early 30s was designed for an entirely different version of your life. Have you reviewed it since?
The first financial shock was the out-of-pocket expenses during the diagnostic phase. Then came the bills for four operations.
The government has ditched higher private health fund rebates for those aged over 65. But the whole system needs to be dumped.
Brisbane student Madison Purkis was just 19 when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that struck both her body and bank account.
Health Minister Mark Butler revealed on Wednesday that Labor would reverse a 2004 change that increased the private healthcare rebate for people over 65.
With insurance costs rising sharply,you might be wondering which policies you can afford to lose,and which ones you should keep.