Join Bupa Health Insurance
- get up to 80,000 velocity points (as couple)
- get up to 40,000 velocity points (as single)
If you ring them, you might get 1 months free *** (that's my experience anyway)
*** check out the other Medibank deal tho, I think that one is better value if you sign up top hospital and extra ***
Referrer gets $100 Prezzee e-gift card. Refer a Colleague program only eligible at a participating Bupa Health Insurance Retail Store nationally and/or Australia Sales and Customer Service support line. Quote member number from the referral system.
You beat me to it by mere seconds!!
Thanks for the info. Didn't realise they are doing that.
Yeah read about this yesterday. Time to change my hospital cover from BUPA.
Here's just a little bit of what BUPA is doing to health insurance :
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/01/bupa-…
Not to mention their forcing you to go to their dentists, their Drs, their hospital.
Bupa is the pits…
and already there is a petition for it https://www.change.org/p/bupa-reverse-your-new-rip-off-polic…
easier just to boycott them…
No love for family cover?
Pretty sure family cover is also eligible for bonus point. For example, the Growing Family cover is a mid hospital and mid extra cover therefore will get 60,000 velocity points (as couple)
looks not good
I just signed up to AAMI with $200 cashback if I stay for 45 days. That means I can easily leave before the end of June, and by then another insurer may be providing a sign up bonus.
Which then includes an April 1st price rise.
They all go up on that date anyway
Yes. But if you prepaid a year right now, you'd possibly be better off than deal hopping.
@jesseboy89: Not when I take into account the interest I'll save on my mortgage by leaving the money I'd use for an upfront payment in my account and sticking with fortnightly/monthly payments.
Velocity points not worth what they cover.
Bupa is taking us down the path of US healthcare.. no way.
will the points work if you're resigning (with Bupa)?
You should think about finding a new company, they are nasty.
no doubt they are, but I've been with them for more than 10 yrs now (since HBA days before BUPA took over) and everywhere I look is more expensive. Even getting a new quote from BUPA would be about 20% more than what I'm on now.
If that's the case, I don't think you will have much luck to negotiate with them. (unless u are able to find some good deal from Medibank and get them to offer you something)
What I have found is that the sales from both Bupa and Medibank are bounded by the campaign (e.g. 1 months free etc) and the best they could do on top is waived waiting period. They can't do anything else such as give u a better price by price match competitor.
P.S. definitely a lot more flexible back in the day. such as price match, loyalty bonus match etc.
No, won't work. I tried. if you are with Bupa already, they won't give u points to get you to stay.
However, they could offer 1 month free and waived waiting period etc for new cover. (e.g. waived 12 months waiting period for pregnancy)
so only if you go one up, or otherwise we get nothing ey
Not sure about downgrade, you should ask. I am sure they are under a bit of pressure now.
Before signing up to Bupa, you should be aware of the changes to their cover effective from 1st July, 2018.
This is a thread I made about the changes: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/366202