{"id":737556,"date":"2026-06-15T06:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737556\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T06:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:46:09","slug":"demand-for-employer-covered-health-perks-on-the-rise-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737556\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand for employer-covered health perks on the rise in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our research shows growing public support for employers to step in and help, with many Australians backing workplace health cover as a practical solution to rising medical expenses,&#8221; Laura Hicks, spokeswoman of the Members Health Fund Alliance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/work\/at-work\/private-health-insurance-dethrones-working-from-home-as-mostwanted-job-perk\/news-story\/1c907f09c9ec02bdeba8fb6c8b30b36e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told news.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By jurisdiction, the Northern Territory reported the highest demand for employer-covered healthcare, with 75% of employees saying they want it, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of employees in other states, such as New South Wales (59%), Victoria (57%), and Queensland (54%), were in favour of the benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Surpassing work from home demand<\/p>\n<p>The Members Health Fund Alliance attributed the growing demand for employer-covered healthcare insurance to cost-of-living concerns forcing employees to neglect healthcare services.<\/p>\n<p>Seven in 10 Australians between the ages of 18 and 34 said they have delayed routine health appointments by two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our research shows growing public support for employers to step in and help, with many Australians backing workplace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,80050,500,5449,44],"class_list":["post-737556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-employee-benefits","tag-healthcare","tag-human-resources","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737556","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=737556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}