No tax breaks for companies offering private health cover

Private health insurance companies are lobbying the Federal Government to prop up their falling profits by giving extra tax breaks to businesses which pay for private cover for their employees. Companies are already able to write-off such payments as a fringe benefit if they include health cover in any salary package. A better use of taxpayer dollars will be to improve Medicare, making private health cover even more unnecessary.

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