What does private health insurance provide?

It's important to remember that, under Medicare, all Australians are entitled to free treatment in a public hospital, regardless of their insurance status.

Private health insurance provides you with:

• access to a private hospital which might be more luxurious than a public hospital
• greater choice of doctor than you would get if you were treated in the public system and:
• possibly shorter waiting times for some forms of elective (non-urgent) surgery.
  

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