Treasury estimates that, under the measures blocked in this chamber yesterday, 99.7 per cent of people will retain their hospital cover. This will not have a significant effect on demand for public hospital services—on the premiums of the 9.7 million people with private health insurance. The President of the AMA agrees. On Meet the Press on 7 June this year, Dr Andrew Pesce said:

The AMA has had some modelling done itself by Access Economics, and this would show that there isn’t going to be a huge drop-out at this stage …

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