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Feature Articles
As part of the Australian Private Hospitals Association's (APHA's) proactive involvement in the issues of the day affecting the sector, from time to time the Association provides commentary through feature articles and opinion pieces in a variety of publications and forums...
March 2025
- 5 Mar 2025
Private hospitals bearing the brunt of bad decisions
Letting health insurers run amok isn't in anyone's interests, let alone patients. They need to be brought to heel. Our Opinion Editorial published in The Daily Telegraph...
April 2025
- 1 Apr 2025
Failed accountability
APHA's column for Australian Doctor, published in the March-April edition of the magazine, chronicling the underhanded and unaccountable tactics of health insurance companies while the Albanese Government does nothing...
- 16 Apr 2025
Don't ignore private hospitals to fix out health mess
Politicians love spending in elections. But making insurers pay for the treatments of insured patients in full cost taxpayers nothing, while making Australia's balanced hospital system viable. Our Op Ed in Daily Telegraph and Adelaide Advertiser...
June 2025
- 1 Jun 2025
When did reform in health become a dirty word?
APHA's opinion column for Australian Doctor, published in the June edition of the magazine, highlighting the political penchant for funding announcements over much-needed reform...
- 6 Jun 2025
Paying more for less: The emergency of health insurance
APHA's opinion editorial for the New Daily highlighting the duplicity of the health insurance industry in being 'too tricky by half in trying to play people for mugs'. Insurers are charging their members more but paying out less...
August 2025
- 1 Aug 2025
Insurers paying less from growing coffers
APHA's column for Australian Doctor, published in the July-August edition of the magazine, demonstrating that the insurance industry's funding claims don't stack up...
September 2025
- 1 Sep 2025
Mandatory Code of Conduct essential for regulating health insurance companies
APHA's column for Australian Doctor magazine details the unconscionable contracting tactics private health insurers stoop to so they can deny patients the care they need and short-change private hospitals on payments for treatment...
October 2025
- 7 Oct 2025
How many more private psychiatric hospitals have to close before government acts on mental health crisis?
Much of the mental health crisis is due to the exploitative practices of health insurers, who see mental health as a cost to be avoided, and a Federal Government that, for three years, has ignored all the warnings. Our Op Ed in The Mercury...
November 2025
- 20 Nov 2025
Insurers wrecking the mental health mission
The mental health crisis is worsening. Insurance profits are up, psychiatric hospitals are closing, public hospitals can't cope, patients are falling through the cracks and the government shrugs its shoulders. Our Op Ed in the Daily Telegraph...
December 2025
- 1 Dec 2025
Mental health crisis only getting worse
More private psychiatric hospitals will close as the Federal Government dawdles into deep disaster, blind to the critical need for private acute mental health and insurers undercutting patient care. Our column in Australian Doctor magazine...