Time to talk about health insurance, Peter Dutton

Updated April 19 2018 - 8:32am, first published December 27 2013 - 3:00am

On reported rises to health insurance premiums (''Big rise in health insurance premiums'' (December 24, p1), Health Minister Peter Dutton said ''There is no doubt this increase could have been lower had it not been for the pressures placed on the sector by Labor'', but he ''declined a request for an interview to explain those pressures''.

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