Tag Archives: Ian Hickie

Is the Govt retreating from serious health reform? Ian Hickie

Are we on the verge of real health reform?
We’re not even close – and if you’re expecting anything meaningful to happen before 2020, you’re just not paying close enough attention.
That’s  the assessment of Professor Ian Hickie, executive director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University of Sydney.
And he thinks the Federal [...]

What is Medicare Select anyway?

When the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s final report was released, one recommendation was that the Federal Government explore the feasibility of transforming Medicare into a managed competition model of health insurance, called Medicare Select.
Not long afterwards, I asked a contact, whose opinion I value, for his view of the proposal.
He replied:
I had a [...]