Morningstar | Medibank Private Loses Department of Defence Contract
The 2014 privatisation of Medibank Private Limited provided an attractive opportunity to invest in Australia's largest private health insurer. Expenditure on healthcare is expected to grow in the long term, driven by an increasing and ageing population. Operating in a heavily regulated industry, Australian health insurers typically produce stable and defensive earnings and, in our opinion, Medibank is well placed to produce solid long-term earnings growth. Future changes to regulations could hurt Medibank's prospects, but we don't believe the government would materially damage the viability of the private health insurance sector in Australia. Growth is supported by government reliance on private health insurers to partially fund escalating healthcare costs. Government policies and incentives encourage participation, with 54% of the population covered for private hospital and/or ancillary health insurance.Medibank Private is a private health insurer. Co.'s main business is Health Insurance, whereby it underwrites and distributes private health insurance policies under two brands, Medibank and ahm. Co. has two segments, Health Insurance, which provides private health insurance products including hospital cover and extras cover, as stand-alone products or packaged products that combine the two and also provides health insurance products to overseas visitors and students; and Complementary Services, which include activities such as contracting with government and corporate customers to provide health management services, as well as providing telehealth services in Australia and New Zealand.
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