As part of our series of rolling posts from the #AusVotesHealth Twitter festival, we report on key public health concerns, including poverty, inequities in oral health, unhealthy marketing,... 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
*** First published at The Conversation *** This year’s budget includes $448.5 to modernise Australia’s Medicare system, by encouraging people with diabetes to sign up to a GP clinic for the... Read more
Continuing Croakey’s series of pre-Budget articles, today’s post highlights some of the stand-out Budget recommendations from the health and community sectors that don’t fit within any... Read more
Following on from the background piece on private patients seeking care in public hospitals, Martyn Goddard explains the driving force behind this practice and outlines how this continuing t... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Whatever their political stripes, the next Federal Government must commit to reforming “the dead cat” of the private health insurance system, according t... Read more
In a recent article, health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett argued that Labor’s election-eve pledge to establish an independent Health Reform Commission says much more about the politics of... 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
With health again shaping up as a key battleground in this year’s federal election, private health insurance is under scrutiny once more. In this piece, reproduced with permission at C... Read more
In a timely end-of-year reflection that also serves as a call to action for 2019, the chief executive officer of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia, Leanne Wells, identifies several are... Read more
