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%).
280114, australia post, medibank private, NBN, privatisation, Snowy hydro
Q. Would you support or oppose privatisation of the following Government-owned corporations?
|
|
Total support |
Total oppose |
|
Strongly support |
Support |
Oppose |
Strongly oppose |
Don’t know |
| Medibank Private |
29% |
54% |
5% |
24% |
26% |
28% |
18% |
|
| Australia Post |
20% |
69% |
4% |
16% |
26% |
43% |
11% |
|
| The ABC and SBS |
21% |
64% |
5% |
16% |
25% |
39% |
14% |
|
| The National Broadband Network |
28% |
58% |
7% |
21% |
24% |
34% |
14% |
|
| Snowy Hydro |
17% |
53% |
3% |
14% |
23% |
30% |
30% |
|
| Australian Rail Track Corporation (which runs much of the interstate train network) |
23% |
58% |
5% |
18% |
25% |
33% |
19% |
There was majority opposition to privatising each of the Government-owned corporations listed.
Privatisation of Australia Post (69%) and ABC/SBS (64%) were most strongly opposed.
While support for privatisation of these corporations was higher among Liberal/National voter, they were still more likely to oppose than support. Apart from Medibank Private (40% support/46% oppose) and the NBN (42%/46%), a majority of Liberal/National voters opposed privatisation of each corporation.