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David Ellis
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Private Health Insurers Relieved Following Labor’s Surprise Electoral Loss. FVEs Unchanged

The two narrow-moat private health insurers, Medibank Private and NIB Holdings are enjoying a reprieve from onerous Labor party policies following Labor’s surprise election loss on May 18, 2019. The reversal of negative election sentiment resulted in a strong increase in share prices as it became clear Labor’s policy of restricting premium rate increases to 2% per year for two years has been binned. Medibank’s share price increased 12% with NIB Holdings benefiting from a 13% increase. Despite th...
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Medibank Private Ltd.

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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