觉得有理就加分作者: 从北到南 时间: 2015-6-26 21:44
Who pays Lifetime Health Cover?
If you do not have hospital cover with an Australian registered health fund on your Lifetime Health Cover base day and then decide to take out hospital cover later in life, you will pay a 2% loading on top of your premium for every year you are aged over 30.
In most cases, your Lifetime Health Cover base day is the later of 1 July 2000 or the 1st of July following your 31st birthday.
For example, if you take out hospital cover at age 40 you will pay 20% more than someone who first took out hospital cover at age 30. The maximum loading is 70%.
Once you have paid a LHC loading on your private hospital insurance for 10 continuous years, the loading is removed. Your loading will then remain at 0% as long as you retain your hospital cover; or, if you cancel your cover after the loading is removed, as long as you do not exceed your permitted days without hospital cover (see below).
If you have taken up hospital cover on or after your Lifetime Health Cover base day, then you can access the following 'permitted days without hospital cover' during which you don't have an active hospital policy, but your loading does not increase. For most people, your base day is the later of 1 July 2000 or the 1 July after your 31st birthday.
Gaps in cover - to cover small gaps, such as switching from one fund to another, you are able to be without hospital cover for periods totalling 1094 days (i.e. three years less one day) during your lifetime, without affecting your loading. This is known as 'Days of Absence'.
If you use up your Days of Absence - that is, you have a total gap period of 1095 days - you will pay a 2% loading on rejoining private hospital cover. The loading will increase by 2% for every year after that without cover.
新移民的base day:
If you are a new migrant to Australia, then you have until the later of 1 July following your 31st birthday or the first anniversary of your full Medicare registration to take out private hospital cover without incurring a Lifetime Health Cover loading.
以上都是“纸上”看来的,想知道这个的最好办法就是上Private health provider 网上填个quote,或者找他们的online chat.