With membership in private health funds in free-fall:
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BUPA, Australia’s largest health insurer, has demanded more subsidies from the federal government:
BUPA, the nation’s largest health insurer covering 3.6 million Australians, has suffered the most among rivals in the past year, losing nearly 80,000 customers from its hospital cover policies as younger customers decided they were not getting value for money.