Margaret Faux

Dr Margaret Faux is the founder and chief executive of Synapse Medical Services, which processes Medicare bills for doctors, hospitals and corporate medical practices.

One policy – lifetime health cover – which was designed to bolster private insurance, now appears to be having the opposite effect.

Medicare

We have a healthcare system where confusion reigns and the patient suffers

The healthcare system is badly broken, and it is consumers who end up paying, says Dr Margaret Faux in this edited extract from her book How to Avoid the Medical Bill Rip Off!