Life Insurance Policy News
Health premiums on way up again
Saturday February 26, 2011
FAMILY health insurance premiums are to rise by an average of $2.88 a week after intense negotiations in which one health fund has rejected a government demand to reduce its proposed increase.Look who's playing Henny Penny card
Saturday February 26, 2011
I BLAME the miners. Having proved how easily financial muscle, self-interest and sheer propaganda can overturn government policy (and come close to overturning government), you can't blame other interest groups for thinking government policy is only for real if those affected are too lily-livered to do anything about it.Healthcare's worthy goal, rotten base
Monday February 21, 2011
The private health rebate is a $5bn elephant that will stomp on reform.ASK NOEL
Saturday February 19, 2011
WE run our own self-managed super fund but for years have used AMP for our life insurance. We are told we should pay for this through our SMSF but we do our own direct investing and as such don't have any fund managers who would offer this. Is there another way to pay for life insurance through our SMSF?A long, hard look inside our jails would benefit all of us
Friday February 4, 2011
One of the most telling commentaries on all that is wrong with prisons was made recently by American law professor David Cole. "We commit offenders to such places precisely so we will not have to pay attention to them," he wrote in an article for the New York Review of Books.