哪位TX看了今天AFR上关于医疗保险rebate的新闻？究竟怎么理解？

kieren

今天在AFR上看到这么一个新闻，摘录如下，说是政府要对health insurance和Medicare surcharge进行改革，下周就会在议会通过法案。
想跟大家讨论下究竟怎么理解这个改革，是不是说以后个人收入超过129k或者家庭收入超过258k就没有保险的rebate了，现在好像是30%？同事Medicare Surcharge提高1.5%，现在是1%，那么，如果收入超过上述标准，而没有买私人医疗保险，就要交4%的medicare charge = 1.5%（正常的medicare charge)+2.5%surcharge?
请问我的理解对吗？
如果是这样，意味着在一定收入水平上的人将面临增加的保险支出，大家会因此而取消保险吗？看新闻里说，政府相信99.7%的人不会因此取消私人医疗保险。

“Private health insurance will be means tested and high-income earners who don’t take it out will be charged a higher Medicare surcharge under laws set to be passed in parliament next week.
The government is likely to have secured the three votes it needs for the measures, which will cut the rebate for people earning more than $129,000 and families who earn more than $258,000 and increase the Medicare surcharge by 1.5 per cent for those brackets if they don’t take out insurance.”

[ 本帖最后由 kieren 于 2012-2-9 18:09 编辑 ]

kieren

原来新闻版已经报了条SMH上类似的新闻了

lovefenger

找富人征税去了