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Does private health insurance cut public hospital waiting lists? We found it barely makes a dent

By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
Jongsay Yong, Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne
Ou Yang, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne

Governments spend billions of dollars every year to encourage us to take up private cover. But our research shows this does little to reduce pressure on the public system.

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