This means about 44,000 would drop it.This agrees with our earlier research showing most older Australians don’t need a bigger rebate to keep their insurance.But last week, Private Healthcare Australia released polling of more than 1,500 people showing 39 per cent of insured older Australians say they’d be more likely to drop their cover.Based on the number of privately insured Australians aged 65 and over, that would mean about one million people, considerably more than the government’s predictions.Our new research looks at the impacts of the government’s proposal That means we could focus on the impact of scrapping the extra health insurance rebates for the over 65s without muddying the waters.We estimated 14,821–42,498 older Australians would drop their cover