To cover the cost n shieet

Help pay for Peter's broken body with healthy Paul's money

Christ this shit sounds very Soviet

Price fixing

Noone even bats an eyelid

Are most aussies fucking statist sheep?

Neither did I, except I knew I had to take out insurance before I was 32

And that was only because of the threat of loading

I didn't actually look into it any further than that

Jesus Christ this is unfucking believable

theoretically I could just not take out private health insurance

*e v e r*

and never have to worry about the loading fee

Kek

and just rely on medicare

But

Why is it theoretical?

I can only assume I'm missing something there, because that seems like a painfully obvious choice

I'll need to dig into it some more

Exactly

It was my insurance company telling me over the phone about this, then they sent me the gov info on it

Why work when you can get money for free

Wow

written by the gov, so not 'spun' by the insurance company

What a nice fucking insurance company

I’m compelled to like the company in this case

wow

But thanks for giving me fire to hit back with @Reaps

I just went to the page

It was 'updated' on the 7th of Dec

Yesterday ?!

wish I had archived it

Fuck

instead I just have a .txt document

here's what I copypasted at the time

When did you copy and paste?

the 7th ;p

they changed it a few hours after

anyway

Lifetime Health Cover is a Government initiative that started on 1 July 2000. It was designed to encourage people to take out hospital insurance earlier in life, and to maintain their cover.
In Australia, private health insurance is not ‘risk-rated’ like most forms of insurance. Private health insurers cannot refuse to insure any person, and must charge everyone the same premium for the same level of cover, despite their risk profile and likelihood of using health services.

LHC is a financial loading that can be payable in addition to the base rate premium for your private health insurance hospital cover. If you purchase hospital cover earlier in life, and keep it, you will pay lower premiums compared to someone who joins when they are older.

LHC loadings apply only to hospital cover. They do not apply to private health insurance general treatment cover (also known as ancillary or extras cover).

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