Tag Archives: Medicare

Stop exploiting us – consumers tell ophthalmologists

August 26, 2009 – 3:55 pm

“Patients will suffer if the Government does this.” It’s a time-honoured line that the powerful players in the health and medical industry are quick to trot out when their interests are threatened. Sometimes they’re right – that patients’ or the broader community’s interests are at stake. But often the real agenda is much more about [...]

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Fine print alert for those concerned about Aboriginal and rural health, and Medicare’s future

July 30, 2009 – 9:11 pm

Thanks to the Croakey reader who has clearly been meticulous in their reading of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission report, and has written to sound the alarm that Aboriginal people are not included in the proposal for under-served remote and rural communities to receive top-up funding.
The top-up is aimed at overcoming the [...]

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Remember the big picture: Prof Stephen Leeder on the budget

May 12, 2009 – 8:48 pm

Professor Stephen Leeder, director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney, is first off the Croakey blocks with a budget response:
The budget is a responsible response to the discombobulated global financial environment.
The good things for health include an increase in the pensions (given that poverty is a health hazard), [...]

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Web doctoring: a sad comment on the state of mental health services?

January 27, 2009 – 9:51 am

Some hundreds of patients with depression, anxiety and other disorders have received online treatment using a sophisticated computerised cognitive behaviour therapy program from the St Vincent’s Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders in Sydney.  The treatment is effective in the short and long term, according to Gavin Andrews, professor of psychiatry at St Vincent’s Hospital. [...]

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