health insurance fees, medibank private
Q. Do you think the sale of Medibank Private will cause an increase or decrease in health insurance fees or will it make no difference?
Total |
|
Vote Labor |
Vote Lib/Nat |
Vote Greens |
Vote other |
|
Total increase |
61% |
77% |
48% |
68% |
64% |
|
Total decrease |
3% |
2% |
3% |
5% |
2% |
|
Fees will increase a lot |
36% |
55% |
21% |
30% |
36% |
|
Fees will increase a little |
25% |
22% |
27% |
38% |
28% |
|
Will make no difference to fees |
19% |
7% |
36% |
10% |
21% |
|
Fees will decrease a little |
2% |
2% |
2% |
4% |
1% |
|
Fees will decrease a lot |
1% |
* |
1% |
1% |
1% |
|
Don’t know |
17% |
14% |
15% |
17% |
13% |
61% of respondents think that the sale of Medibank Private will cause an increase in health insurance fees, 19% think it will make no difference and 3% think fees will decrease.
Those most likely to think fees will increase were Labor voters (77%), Greens voters (68%), aged 45-64 (66%) and people on incomes under $600pw (69%).