private healHealth fund premiums jump again
This year&8217;s increase is marginally lower than the 2010 rise of 5.78 per cent across the board.
Families will have to fork out more for their private health cover from April after Health Minister Nicola Roxon approved a hike in premiums for 34 of 35 funds.
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Of the big funds， HCF will raise its private health fundspremiums by 6.41 per cent， NIB by 6.19 per cent and Westfund by 5.94 per cent. All are above the average.
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The Health Minister said one fund， Australian Unity， declined to reduce its planned increase and she&8217;d therefore refused to approve any rise yet.
&8216;&8216;During the premium process I asked 17 of the 35 health funds to resubmit their applications， which helped reduce the premium increase for 7.9 million Australians，&8217;&8217; Ms Roxon said today.
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Medibank Private is slightly lower than the average with an increase of 5.35 per cent. MBF， HBA and Mutual Community&8217;s premiums will jump by 5.14 per cent from April.
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private healHealth fund premiums jump again，Costs will jump an average of 5.57 per cent. That translates to an extra $1.61 a week for individuals paying $1500 a year and $3.21 a week for milies with a $3000 policy.
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&8216;&8216;I am not satisfied that Australian Unity has done all they can to ensure their customers get a reasonable deal so I&8217;ll be asking them to go back and reconsider their position，&8217;&8217; she said.
Ms Roxon said the premium hike would have been higher without her intervention.
Benefits paid out to members of health funds jumped 7.7 per cent in 2009/10 to $12.2 billion.
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