United States President Donald Trump has become an unlikely (and perhaps unwitting) champion of Australia’s universal health care system, telling Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull... Read more
The Hippocratic Oath requires physicians to first, do no harm, but what about hitting them where it hurts most – the hip pocket? In this piece for John Menadue’s Pearls and Irrit... Read more
Earlier this month, The Australian’s health editor, Sean Parnell, wrote an interesting news article, based on the minutes of a Government-convened workshop that occurred in December. One ite... Read more
This week the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released its Health expenditure Australia 2014–15 report. This document contains a wealth of information about the way in which we al... Read more
Mark Metherell writes: The past week has been a bumper one for revelation of the huge variation in hospital costs and medical specialists fees. Data released by the National Health Performan... Read more
Patients who already have high out of pocket costs for X-rays, CT scans and other imaging services are facing even higher costs as a result of little-understood Federal Budget changes. Repre... Read more
On 22 August the Senate Community Affairs Committee released the report of its Inquiry into Out-of-Pocket costs in Australian health care. This is a comprehensive document, which comprehens... Read more
Eighty submissions have been made to the Senate inquiry into out-of-pocket healthcare costs and the impact of the Government’s proposed co-payments, with public hearings to be held in Melbou... Read more
Recent reports highlight the economic hardship facing many patients with chronic diseases, according to Kellie Bisset, editor of the HARC e-Bulletin and Communications Director at the Sax In... Read more
