Private health insurers say Labor’s hospital funding push will drive up premiums for 15 million Australians
Healthscope has appointed restructuring experts at KordaMentha to prepare a contingency plan in case the country’s second-largest private hospital operator is placed into voluntary administration. The company was acquired by Canadian investment giant Brookfield in 2019 but has struggled under a debt pile that has reached $1.6 billion. Healthscope has been negotiating with its lenders…