Actuaries Institute Podcast

TRANSCRIPThttps://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=2d1ed620-77a9-410b-8b0e-be4020d96694DESCRIPTIONIn this instalment of the Actuaries Institute podcast series, Practice Excellence Adviser at the Institute, Vanessa Beenders sat down with Bevan Damm and Matthew Crane, authors of the new Green Paper 'How To Make Private Health Insurance Healthier' to discuss their research and findings.The healthcare system in Australia is complex. It involves many funders and healthcare providers with competing interests, both from the public and private sectors. However, despite its complexity, the healthcare system in Australia is one of the best in the world and, for a long time, private health insurance has been a part of that system. So, without reducing or expanding the role of PHI in the healthcare system more broadly, how can the community get more from private health insurance?Discussion topics include:•The complexities surrounding the current structure of Private Health Insurance and the Public heal