September 28, 2009 – 9:38 pm
Further to the previous Croakey post on the Medicare Select proposal, health policy Jennifer Doggett has some questions.
She writes:
“The Inside Story article is great – it really brings out some of the complexities of this issue and the unresolved issues in the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission recommendation. I hope it gets read [...]
September 14, 2009 – 7:45 am
Andrew Podger, the former Health Department secretary and public service commissioner, may be in China at the moment, but he is keeping a close eye on the Australian health scene. And he doesn’t sound too impressed.
He writes:
“To call the Government’s private health insurance (PHI) proposals ‘reform’ is nonsense: it is just an extraordinarily clumsy way [...]
September 10, 2009 – 12:13 pm
In voting down the Government’s efforts to reform the private health insurance rebate, the Opposition has revealed its poor grasp of health financing issues.
So says health policy analyst Jennifer Doggett, who describes the rebate as “a textbook example of the worst health funding policy in Australia’s history“.
She writes:
“Imagine if car insurance provided rebates for [...]
August 24, 2009 – 12:40 pm
Oh, the discomfort and the peril of trying to juggle while straddling a barbed wire fence.
That, at least, is the image that comes to Croakey’s mind when listening to Health Minister Roxon on the hustings recently, arguing that it is only fair and fiscally responsible that there be means testing of Government subsidies for private [...]
Fiona Armstrong, a health policy advisor and longstanding advocate of health reform, is deeply disappointed by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report. She writes:
“The NHHRC report is not only a missed opportunity to create a system that will address equity and efficiency in the current system – instead its proposals threaten both.
Of course [...]
For years, we’ve been repeatedly told that when Governments plough public money into subsidising private health insurance and private hospitals, they’re doing it to help the public hospital system.
Prue Power is executive director of the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association, which represents public healthcare, and whose members include Queensland Health, South Australian Health, Tasmanian [...]
Ian McAuley, a Centre for Policy Development Fellow and lecturer in Public Sector Finance at the University of Canberra, wrote this piece in Crikey yesterday, examining why the private health insurance industry is campaigning against changes that are actually going to increase incentives for high income earners to hold private health insurance.
He concluded that the [...]
For everyone who believes that simply spending more money is the answer to the health system’s woes, this new report should be essential reading.
It’s a review of the evidence about efficiency and health systems, released today as a National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission background paper.
Here, after a speed read, are some of the more [...]
There’s an interesting analysis at Crikey today about the implications of Dr Andrew Pesce’s election as AMA president.
I wish I’d read it before giving a talk to health policy students at the ANU yesterday about lobby groups in health. Of course, you always end up preparing for these things at the last moment, generally late [...]
While the front pages and buckets of airtime are being devoured by the question of whether the wealthy should have to pay more for their private health insurance, there are other, far more important things that you could be reading about.
The 18 May edition of the Medical Journal of Australia is devoted to Indigenous health, [...]
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