The financial cost of a cancer diagnosis leaves many patients in poverty

15 August 2019 - When Jane was diagnosed with bowel cancer 12 months ago she knew the physical and mental ...

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Costing methods applied to cancer

8 August 2019 - Health care is vital in improving quality and length of life.  ...

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If we get rid of private health insurance, what happens next?

7 August 2019 - “Hey, hey, ho, ho, private health insurance has to go!” This is the relentless chant being sung ...

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PHARMAC’s flatlining funding by stealth

9 August 2019 - The Labour-led Government is attempting to hide its shameful underfunding of medicines by peddling the myth ...

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Insurers snooping in our health records

9 August 2019 - Life insurers have trawled through the medical records of 150,000 Australians in an attempt to deny ...

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Report offers blueprint to sustain Australia's health care system

8 August 2019 - Recommendations from a new report on the future of healthcare in Australia will be road tested ...

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Why using your health cover in a public hospital is adding $100 to your health fund premiums

7 August 2019 - Public hospitals are gouging health fund members of more than $1.6 billion a year by bullying them ...

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Boris pledges a £1.8 billion cash injection for the NHS

5 August 2019 - There’s nothing like the prospect of a general election to free up funding for the NHS, ...

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New Zealand health system: universalism struggles with persisting inequities

3 August 2019 - New Zealand was one of the first countries to establish a universal, tax-funded national health service.  ...

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Private health insurance at a 'tipping point', with Australians dropping cover in droves

1 August 2019 - Health industry experts are warning Australia's private health insurance industry could be in terminal decline as ...

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Could Quebec’s public drug plan work for national pharmacare?

30 July 2019 - Quebec’s universal pharmacare program offers better drug coverage and quicker approval for new drugs coming to ...

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Medicare generations pass up health insurance

26 July 2019 - Australians who grew up with Medicare continue to shun health insurance, with new figures showing health ...

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'Being sold a dud': health insurance 'death spiral' getting worse, data shows

25 July 2019 - The number of Australians abandoning private hospital cover has surged, with the latest official data igniting ...

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Private health insurance leaves plenty of people unhappy, so how can it be fixed?

25 July 2019 - With young and healthy people baulking at the cost of private health insurance, there are fears ...

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Time for big picture health focus: doctors

24 July 2019 - Australia's health system is riddled with problems and the Morrison government must develop a big picture ...

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