{"id":229461,"date":"2026-01-12T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:44:09","slug":"private-health-insurers-warn-of-exodus-under-labors-new-hospital-funding-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229461\/","title":{"rendered":"Private health insurers warn of exodus under Labor\u2019s new hospital funding model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurers are warning of an exodus from private cover under a Labor plan to change the way private hospitals are funded, which they say will make premiums unaffordable for more than half a million people.<\/p>\n<p>Modelling by Private Healthcare Australia, which represents the country\u2019s major insurers including Medibank, Bupa and NIB, suggests 560,000 people could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/doctors-concerned-australians-are-dumping-gold-tier-health-policies-20251204-p5nkrq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drop out of the private health system<\/a> if the government backs the introduction of a so-called benchmark pricing model for hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health insurers are warning of an exodus from private cover under a Labor plan to change the way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-229461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}