Tuesday, April 14, 2009

An unsolicited email about the Ozecover website...

Congratulations on the great website and for providing such a service. I have been wading through info sent out from health insurance funds for months with little progress, and the other comparison sites only represent a few companies. Your site is attractive, easy to navigate and gives exceptionally quick quotes without the need to fill out pages and pages of private information.
Thank you.
(I read about the site in the Age Newspaper today 15/4)
SW.
Melbourne

Thursday, April 9, 2009

How does Ozecover make it's money?

Some website operators are paid very large commissions for selling health insurance, and they only compare health insurance products from the insurers that pay them.
Ozecover includes health cover from every insurer and ccompares every product for which we can get the information. It is our philosophy to cater for people who want to do genuine comparison shopping and who want to make informed choices.
Some insurers are happy to provide electronic links so customers can apply for the products they want directly through the Ozecover website without further hassle. These insurers pay us referral fees of 2.5% of the premiums for the business they get this way. We also allow these insurers to advertise on the site.

The referral fees do not affect the suggestions we make or the premiums you pay. In framing our suggestions, we match your Quick Quote responses to the products of every available insurer at the best prices we can find in the market.

Compare health insurance in Australia now. There is no charge.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Save $1,000 per family on health insurance

"Most families are paying too much for their health insurance,” actuary Peter Carroll has told a Today Tonight program on Channel 7. “Families paying more than $200 a month can save as much as $1000 every year by shopping around on the internet.” Ozecover is the only commercial website that compares all available health insurance companies and sorts out the ten cheapest health cover deals for singles and for families based on a few simple questions. It empowers consumers.

Peter, who is an actuary and a director of Ozecover, a new website, says, “If you are worried about health insurance rates going up this week, check out the Ozecover website. It costs nothing to look and will show you how to get good cover for the best private hospitals in Australia for as little as $2 a day for a single person or $4 a day for a family. If you are paying any more, ask your health fund why.”

“With airfares, you can go on the internet and get a no frills ticket that gets you safely and easily where you want to go or you can pay a lot more for luxuries you can easily do without,” says Peter. ”With health insurance it is the same. You can use Ozecover to track down simple no frills health cover that does the job and saves you a lot of money, or you can keep paying for expensive frills and extras you might think are not worth the price, especially when times are hard.”

“Ozecover has all 38 health insurance companies in its database and sorts out the ten cheapest deals for singles and families based on a few simple questions. It gives power to consumers to shop around easily and anonymously, whether buying for the first time or comparing the value in existing insurance when rates and benefits are changing.”

Further information: http://www.ozecover.com.au or Peter Carroll on 1300 ECOVER.