How average income earners will be pushed into private health insurance by 2020

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Updated August 8 2016 - 8:09am, first published July 24 2016 - 2:46pm
Health Minister Sussan Ley. Photo: Andrew Meares
Health Minister Sussan Ley. Photo: Andrew Meares

By 2020 average income earners will be forced to buy private health insurance or pay extra tax after the government quietly extended a freeze in the threshold for the Medicare Levy Surcharge.

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