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'Shoot Bambi': NIB boss pushes to abolish Medicare
23 July 2019 - Australia should abolish Medicare and force people to take out private health insurance instead, according to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jul 2019
Informed Financial Consent guide – launched
23 July 2019 - The Australian Government and the AMA have launched a new guide that will better aid Australians making ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2019
Should national pharmacare apply a value based insurance design?
22 July 2019 - The final report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, published in June 2019, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2019
Australia's National Medicines Policy is outdated and in need of review
22 July 2019 - How will issues such as disruptive innovation, precision medicine and climate change affect Australia's medicines policy ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2019
'It's not minutes to midnight': private health insurers are financially robust, says former regulator
22 July 2019 - Australia's private health insurers including ASX listed Medibank and NIB are in robust financial health, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Health insurance rebate still a pain in the budget
18 July 2019 - The private health insurance sector wants increased rebates to stop the recent decline in membership. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Private health insurance worthy of support
17 July 2019 - While there are many who have strong ideological objections to the use of taxpayers' money to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2019
Early payouts for health care super silly, Treasury told
18 July 2019 - The superannuation sector has warned Treasury that letting people use retirement savings to pay for private ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Private health care facing 'death spiral' if young, healthy users abandon insurance, report says
16 July 2019 - Australia's health care system has become increasingly unfair, costly and confusing, according to a new report, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Academies call on health minsters to resolve health data issues
15 July 2019 - Regulatory barriers that limit timely access to population and health data must be resolved to achieve ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2019
Mulhollands' Māori health inquiry submission to focus firmly on drug funding problems
14 July 2019 - Malcolm Muholland's wife Wiki Mulholland has advanced breast cancer. Malcolm Mullholland says the details of an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2019
Protecting PHARMAC and cancer treatment
13 July 2019 - The "postcode lottery", delays and other failings for cancer treatment need to be addressed. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Canada’s labour leaders encourage premiers to embrace universal pharmacare
10 July 2019 - The presidents of federations of labour from across the country are in Saskatoon during the Council ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2019
'Jaws of death': health insurance faces its crisis moment
6 July 2019 - “My goal is very clear, to make sure we achieve the goal of being the best ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jun 2019
Canada’s ‘Pharmacare’ idea will face the same obstacles as Obamacare
27 June 2019 - Canadians have long viewed their single payer health care system with a near-religious reverence, largely because ...