Tag Archives: health system

Wait a minute, we don’t have a health SYSTEM at all…

January 30, 2009 – 5:39 pm

Ian McAuley, an adjunct lecturer in public sector finance at the University of Canberra and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development, writes:
Mark Ragg’s report on our health care is an excellent snapshot, looking like the school report card of a brilliant kid with severe autism.
The only disagreement I have with Ragg is that [...]

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Is our health system doing a “reverse Robin Hood”?

January 30, 2009 – 10:21 am

Health and communications consultant Mark Ragg spent a fair bit of time wading through health statistics and reports to come up with his own personal assessment of the state of our health system.
His conclusion, as reported in Crikey yesterday, is that the system is generally fine – but it’s not fair.
“You do much better [...]

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