since 2000. Although we do not have information about when the recent leavers first
purchased insurance, the younger age of the leavers indicates that many in this group
may have taken up private hospital cover as a response to Lifetime Health Cover
policy, but dropped the cover because of financial difficulties rather than for any
other reason.
The inclusion of another round of Private Health Insurance questions in future waves
of HILDA would help clarify many of these findings and answer further questions
raised by this analysis.
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