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Yes, doctors’ fees should be transparent, but that requirement alone doesn’t go far enough to combat “bill shock”. Specialists should also be required to set fees that are “fair and reasonable”.
Britain’s health service will soon cost £200 billion. Don’t mope, it’s cause for celebration.
New research shows there is a direct relationship between central bank interest rate decisions and mental health.
Treasurer Scott Morrison abandoned the proposed increase to the Medicare levy to pay for the NDIS. Here’s what you need to know about how the NDIS is funded, and how cost predictions have changed.
Australia loses nearly A$2 billion of GDP every year due to people with cancer leaving the workforce.
Private health insurance premiums will rise from April 1, leaving consumers wondering if they should give it up or downgrade to save money.
The Jacqui Lambie Network plan is short on detail and unlikely to improve the health system or outcomes for Tasmanians over the longer term.
Public hospitals in Australia are owned and operated by state (and territory) governments. So why does the Commonwealth government attract blame for lack of hospital funding?
We are paying more for our health insurance because we are using it more. No crude, short-term measures to restrict premium growth will deal with this fact.
One in four patients who stays overnight in hospital endures a complication.
The reality of how the so-called penalties will work won’t match the rhetoric.
We have lots of data about hospital safety, but it’s not used to make us safer or more comfortable when we’re admitted.
The benefits of a sugar tax go beyond mere health savings when obesity rates drop. Our new research predicts wider economic benefits due to more, healthier people in work.
After-hours home medical services cost the taxpayer dearly and don’t reduce emergency department visits, according to new research.
While we must put in place effective measures to protect against the malicious use of personal data, not using the information collected about Australians comes at a cost.
Leaked documents of a secret ‘taskforce’ to reform public hospital funding reveal some controversial proposals. So how are hospitals funded and why might this need changing?
The fund is nothing more than a rebadging exercise in the hope people might think it is a new policy. And it’s being used to airbrush public hospitals out of the Medicare picture.
Providing health care to the bush not only benefits people’s health but the local economy.
Australia is spending more than A$500 million a year too much for pharmaceuticals because of a little known loophole that allows drug companies to overcharge the government.
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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 and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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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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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Menzies Centre for Health Policy & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Policy Adviser, National Rural Health Alliance; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
