Newstart recipients are not only more likely to suffer ill health than other Australians but then struggle to get the treatment they need, according to the Consumers Health Forum of Australi... Read more
Prime Minister Scott Morrison may be ‘Back in Black’ but his 2019/20 Health Budget is unlikely to make him number one with the health sector. While there are a few new numbers in the Budget’... Read more
The Ministerial Advisory Committee on Out-of-Pocket costs disappointed many health stakeholders when after a year of deliberations, its report recommended only a narrow range of strategies t... Read more
Labor’s proposed ‘root and branch’ inquiry into the private health sector is looking more like a minor pruning exercise than the comprehensive review of private health care that was initiall... Read more
The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) was announced by the Coalition Federal Government, led then by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in the calamitous 2014-15 Budget that delivered massive cut... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: A trailblazing consumer health advocate, the late Sheila Rimmer, once told me about an experience from her early days as a consumer representative on a medical resea... Read more
Out-of-pocket health costs (OOPs) are a major challenge facing the Australian health system. Australians pay for a higher proportion of total health care in OOPs than do citizens of almost... Read more
(Introduction by Croakey) Out of pocket healthcare costs are set to be one of the health politics/policy issues for 2018. Even the Government is finally acknowledging that out of pocket cost... Read more
When the Consumers’ Health Forum (CHF) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) agree on something, it’s worth taking notice. Particularly when their agreement is about private health ca... Read more
In the previous article at Croakey, Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury argued the case to end public subsidies of the private health insurance industry. In the article below, Doctors Reform... Read more
