Health Reforms
Our government has been trying to ensure that the generous rebate to millions of Australians who take out private health insurance remains in place, and remains sustainable into the future.
To do this, we’ve tried to introduce a means test that stops support for a family earning more than a quarter of a millions dollars - but retains it for nearly 8 million low and middle income Australians, with a scale down for those in between.
Our last changes were met with predictions from the Liberals and insurers that the sky would fall in and that millions would drop out of insurance.
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The Government has sealed the deal on health reforms, declaring them the biggest thing since Medicare - see the story here. But then, they would talk them up, wouldn’t they? The Punch decided to get Australian Medical Association President Dr Steve Hambleton’s verdict.
What’s your overall impression of the deal?
Hospitals definitely needed improved funding and the good signal is that the Prime Minister is actually taking notice of medical experts - so I guess (we should see) improved transparency and meaningful clinical engagement.
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Jason says:
If anyone’s interested, the following study was done examining the outcomes of the four hour rule in the UK: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-6723.2010.01330.x/full Some pertinent discussion points are: “There is no clear evidence that the target to ED completion of 98% of patients in 4 h in itself has had any effect on… Read more »
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Against the Man says:
There was NO negotiation. Gillard just threw money and promised the States everything but the moon to get a deal signed to get something to show Australia she isn’t a total failure. Guess what? a lot of us have seen through the BS. The Malaysian solution is another prime example… Read more »
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