Introduction by Croakey: One of the seven big things that struck Croakey correspondent, Marie McInerney when she attended the National Climate Emergency Summit recently, was the “broad coali... Read more
In his second parliamentary reading of the legislation that established Medicare’s predecessor, Medibank, in 1973, then federal minister for social security, Bill Hayden, described the schem... Read more
Alison Verhoeven writes: On 1 February 1984, Medicare, the current universal health insurance system in Australia, came into effect. It was introduced by the Hawke Labor government and succe... Read more
Awkward praise by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for US President Donald Trump’s repeal of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act might give Australians pause on the eve... Read more
There are few hotter topics in health politics than ballooning costs and the sustainability of government spending, but how much do we actually know about the services Australians use and th... 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
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
Despite the Medicare indexation freeze Australia’s General Practitioners are working harder than ever, with the population ageing and chronic conditions on the rise, particularly among... Read more
In the run-up to the election, the health sector sent the message loud and clear to the Coalition Government that its record on health was pretty sick. The Government scraped in, acknowledgi... Read more
Dear Prime Minister Clearly you are in some serious need of life-saving health advice. As you have yourself admitted, the Coalition has to “do more to reaffirm the faith of the Australian pe... Read more
