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After the election, healthcare reform needs to be a priority for the Queensland government. AAP Image/Dan Peled

Queensland’s top five health priorities this election

By Andrew Wilson

No matter who wins the Queensland election this Saturday, the next premier of Queensland will have to face up to some serious challenges within the state’s health system. There were improvements made…
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The unfurling National Health Reform Agreement should start to deliver changes to Australia’s health-care system in 2012. AAP

Lost about health-care reform? Here’s where we got to in 2011

By Jane Hall, University of Technology, Sydney and Jonathan Karnon

Health-care reform was one of the policy areas where much had been promised but little delivered by the start of 2011. Prime Minister Julia Gillard promised that 2011 would be a year of implementation…
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Day 15 of OccupyMN protest that has occupied Minneapolis. Meanwhile corporate greed continues unabated. Fibonacci Blue

Health savings accounts: just another greedy corporate scam

By Thomas Faunce

At a time when the “Occupy Wall Street” protests against corporate greed are proliferating in the United States and around the world, it’s ironic to read the floating of yet another corporate “get-even…

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Health researchers can learn from soccer

The George Institute

Health care could be improved by taking lessons from the complexities of soccer, according to researchers writing in the…

Too few Australians receive appropriate care

University of New South Wales and University of South Australia

Australians only receive “appropriate” healthcare 57% of the time, according to a study published in the Medical Journal…

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