{"id":30067,"date":"2025-07-29T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30067\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:34:09","slug":"a-gst-on-health-insurance-would-be-the-tipping-point-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/30067\/","title":{"rendered":"A GST on health insurance would be the tipping point for members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Albanese government considers new revenue measures before the treasurer\u2019s economic roundtable, one idea stands out for its potential to cause significant damage to the Australian health system: applying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/tax-and-super\/a-higher-gst-is-no-longer-the-good-tax-reform-that-ken-henry-claimed-20250727-p5mi26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GST<\/a> to health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Such a policy would not only impose an unnecessary cost on 15 million Australians but would also undermine the stability of our mixed public-private health model, which is internationally recognised for delivering efficient, high-quality care.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Albanese government considers new revenue measures before the treasurer\u2019s economic roundtable, one idea stands out for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-30067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}