Health

Jennifer Doggett | Private Health Insurance Rebate: “The Worst Health Funding Policy in Australia’s History”

Jennifer Dogget criticises the Oppositions take on health financing issues in the context of their rejection of the Government’s efforts to reform the private health insurance rebate. Read Jennifer Dogget’s article originally published at...

Comments on the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission report

John Menadue AO responds to the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission’s final report.

Managing demand and supply in health

John Menadue‘s submission to the Senate Community Affairs Inquiry on the Private Health Insurance Bill looks at what Australia must do to contain healthcare costs.

Out of pocket: rethinking health copayments | OCCASIONAL PAPER

Jennifer Doggett proposes a complete rethink of the way we pay for health care in the Centre for Policy Development’s latest paper ‘Out of Pocket’

Cracking down on the private health insurance rebate should be just the beginning: Ian McAuley

Centre for Policy Development fellow Ian McAuley discusses the private health insurance rebate and why it bolsters the wealthy and penalises self-reliance.

Reflections on the NHHRC Interim Report

Centre for Policy Development fellow and author of A New Approach to Primary Care for Australia,Jennifer Doggett, weighs up the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission (NHHRC) Interim Report.

Bringing Health Care back to Local Communities

Tim Woodruff, David Legge, Rod Wilson, and Fiona Armstrong propose a new model for healthcare funding and administration to address the inequities and inefficiencies in our health system: We propose shifting the focus of...

Making Health Policy with Kevin Rudd

CPD fellow Jennifer Doggett has been trawling the health policy reviews through Rudd’s first year: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a new government in possession of a reform agenda must be in...

The Best and Worst in Health

Stephen Leeder and Lesley Russell review the Rudd Government’s year in health policy: The Rudd Government’s first year has brought a mixed record in health policy – a grab-bag of small, uncoordinated initiatives have...

Are Doctors the Cornerstones of Primary Health Care?

Are doctors the cornerstones of primary health care?, asks Tim Woodruff in his address to the Victorian Healthcare Association Conference. ‘If they are currently, they shouldn’t be. Patients should be. The fact that we...