Health insurance numbers stabilise
Chief executive Roger Styles said the June 2012 quarter saw a decline of 0.1% in lives covered, or 1,600 people, bringing the total number of lives covered to 1.34 million.
This was a decrease for the full year of 1.3%, or 17,300 people, compared with June 2011.
"The last few quarters haven't been that flash but this one seems to have stabilised, there hasn't been that much change at all so I think there's a bit of cautious optimism," Styles said.
He said take up and retention of private health insurance has historically been linked to the economic conditions, and that the figures offered "a reasonable barometer of the economy."
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