Health Cover provides affordable protection against the medical costs that really count – surgery and hospital bills.
How long can you afford to wait?
You want to know that you’ll receive the right treatment when you need it, where you need it and with the specialist of your choice, if you become ill or require elective surgery. In the New Zealand public health system there are currently waiting lists for elective surgery (depending on your condition), queues to see specialists and even queues to obtain diagnostic tests. If you, or someone in your family needed major surgery through the public health system, you might have to join the queue of thousands who are waiting for surgery today. These problems continue to grow as the Public Health System continues to grapple with rising costs and dwindling budgets. (Source: NZ Health Information Service).
The sensible solution
Health Insurance makes sense because it helps to give you peace of mind. It helps to give you access to the very best medical care at a time that suits you, and in the private hospital of your choice.
There are a large number of Surgeries and procedures that frequently have waiting lists in the Public System. If you elect to use a private hospital for these types of surgery, these are the types of costs that you will have to pay out of pocket, in the absence of health insurance cover.
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