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Public hospitals 'going backwards'
11 December 2019 - Australia's top doctors say the country's hospitals are "going backwards" as more patients wait longer for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2019
Health insurers call for federal crackdown on public hospital 'fraud'
11 December 2019 - Health funds are calling on federal health minister Greg Hunt to use the government's new data-matching ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
National pharmacare must come, even if some provincial governments are against it
10 December 2019 - Naysaying premiers were not elected because they opposed national pharmacare in the last round of provincial elections, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2019
Pharmacare with no new medicines
10 December 2019 - Meeting with pricing officials shows that government's true goal is to slash prices so low that no ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Complaints about private health insurance rule changes jump
9 December 2019 - Complaints about private health insurance rule changes doubled in the September quarter, coinciding with "upheaval" in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Health funds call for urgent reform after government caps price hikes
9 December 2019 - Health funds strong-armed by the government into rising their membership fees by the lowest annual rate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Medibank warns of health insurance crisis
9 December 2019 - One of the nation’s biggest health insurers has appealed for governments and healthcare providers to work ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2019
Cancer costs can be unbearable - a special Centrelink payment is needed, couple say
9 December 2019 - A Swansea couple has called for a special Centrelink payment for people and their carers living ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
Insurer NIB wants access to members’ genetic information
6 December 2019 - Health insurer NIB wants to use genetic information and My Health Record data to calculate the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2019
Government announces lowest health insurance premium increase in 19 years
7 December 2019 - The federal government has announced the lowest increase in private health insurance premiums in two decades, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
Doctors call for shake-up of private health insurance rules
4 December 2019 - Doctors are calling for a boost to the government rebate for health insurance to make it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2019
Radical plan to overhaul private health insurance put forward by Grattan Institute
4 December 2019 - Tracy Lee Jurg has had private health insurance her entire life. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2019
Donald Trump says US would never take over any part of Britain’s NHS
3 December 2019 - US President Donald Trump has reassured the British public that even if the National Health Service ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2019
Cancer Control Agency open, Prime Minister hails Blair Vining's 'tireless advocacy'
3 December 2019 - The Prime Minister has acknowledged Blair Vining's "tireless advocacy" as the new independent Cancer Control Agency ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2019
Premiers want Ottawa to allow opt out for proposed Pharmacare plan
2 December 2019 - Canada's premiers say they want the federal government to increase health-care transfer funds by just over ...