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Health Minister Tanya Plibersek (centre) announced the Commonwealth would pay the $107 million directly to hospitals. AAP/Julian Smith

Medi-muddle: hospital funding fight is resolved but the blame game goes on

By Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute

After months of battle between the Commonwealth and Victorian governments on hospital funding, Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek dramatically intervened last Wednesday by announcing a A$107 million…
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There are a number of design flaws in the new hospital funding system. xparxy

Why the new way of funding public hospitals won’t work

By Anthony Scott, University of Melbourne and Jongsay Yong, University of Melbourne

The first of July saw the introduction of one of the most important health care reforms for Australia’s public hospitals: national activity-based funding (ABF). Hospitals will now be paid a fixed price…

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ICU physicians defy utilitarianism

University of Pennsylvania

Intensive Care Unit clinicians often allocate scarce resources towards gravely-ill existing patients rather than freeing…

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