Private health insurance has been the subject of much debate for decades now. Policies to support it have increased in complexity and cost, all without clear evidence that support is effecti... Read more
Health policy in Australia is as much about politics as it is about policy. For example, the current debate over the future of private health insurance can only be understood in the context... Read more
Introduction by Croakey: Former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, famously said it was in the coalition’s DNA, the Australian Medical Association says we need it to support our robust public/priv... Read more
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
