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Paying for universal healthcare
federal budget

Paying for universal healthcare

Australia has seen a great deal of debate in recent times regarding growing – and potentially unsustainable – health expenditure. Indeed, the Commission of Audit has flagged numerous changes to the current Medicare system, including a co-payment of up to $15. This builds on earlier discussion by The Australian Centre for Health
May 9, 2014 6 min read
Supplier Induced Demand Part 2: Letting down our regions
health economics

Supplier Induced Demand Part 2: Letting down our regions

Lack of adequate health services in rural and regional Australia is well documented. In the second part of my series on supplier-induced demand (if you missed part 1, click here for enlightenment!) I will be considering the possibility that Australia’s health system is in fact causing this problem – through
Jun 1, 2013 4 min read
congress

The US Budget - Petty Politics Equals Poor Policy

Throughout the hoopla of the Leadership Spill that wasn’t I was struck by how parlous politics in Australia had become. Then I wandered over to one of my regularly-read blogs, the ever-engaging Ezra Klein on The Washington Post, who highlighted the endemic nature of intransigence in the budget-making process
Apr 14, 2013 3 min read
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