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After months of negotiations between the major parties, the government has announced its new plan for aged care. Here’s what it means for people in residential aged care and their families.
Aged care providers can’t find staff and a crisis is brewing. If the problem isn’t fixed, there are serious risks to quality and access to services for older people who need support.
Vaccination rates vary widely from GP to GP. Here’s why – and what governments need to do about it.
When we mapped where Indigenous Australians are using a program to access free or discounted medicines, we found huge variation around the country. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Medicare encourages providers to deliver more services, not to deliver good quality care. Here’s why that needs to change.
The aim is to make health care affordable and sustainable. Our new research shows how.
The budget sets the foundation for a new approach to community-based mental health care, eases cost-of-living pressures and aims to keep people out of hospital. Will they work? And what’s missing?
Making the wrong decision about how to access care can impact both your health and finances. So what are your options? And what policy reforms are needed to improve affordable access to health care?
Sugary drinks cause weight gain and increase the risk of a range of diseases. But a tax can reduce sales and make us healthier.
This is a structural problem, not something one budget can fix.
Greater payroll taxes for GP clinics means lower profits. Clinics will seek to make up the shortfall in revenue by other means – and this could include reducing the number of patients they bulk bill.
Neither Ozempic nor Wegovy are listed on the PBS to treat obesity. When Wegovy becomes available, users will need to pay the full price. Or should the government subsidise it?
Here’s how we design a fairer pathology system, fit for the 21st century, with no out-of-pocket costs or the public.
Local governments are increasingly buying – and forgiving – their residents’ medical debt.
An inhaler that costs nearly $300 in the US goes for just $9 in Germany. What gives?
National Cabinet is meeting today to discuss hospital funding, and the interconnected issues of NDIS reform and GST allocation. But how are hospitals actually funded? And what’s GST got to do with it?
Eating too much salt is bad for our health. Governments and food manufacturers have a big role to play in reducing the salt content of Australians’ diets.
Yes, savings from increased participation in private insurance outweigh the costs the government incurs by subsidising private health insurance rebates. But rebates can be better targeted.
We found rebates don’t do much to encourage older people to sign up for private health insurance.
Top contributors
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Policy Adviser, National Rural Health Alliance; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Senior lecturer, Economics Department, University of Technology Sydney