While independent, government-funded Medicare Locals are still in their embryonic form, opposition health spokesperson Peter Dutton has hinted that, if elected, a Coalition government would scrap the bureaucracies…
Until the Opposition releases its health policy, it’s impossible to know what will happen to the health reform agenda.
Alejandro Polanco
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the federal election will be held in mid-September. So, what will happen to the ambitious program of health reform that the Labor government is in the process…
Medicare Locals have a big task, with a modest budget.
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Opposition Health spokesman Peter Dutton has called Medicare Locals “an extra layer of bureaucracy”, and signalled the Coalition will remove them if it’s elected. His conclusion that they’re a waste of…
Medicare Locals are the primary health care flagship of the national health reforms being rolled out by the Labour Government.
AAP
Health Minister Nicola Roxon announced 38 new Medicare Locals last week, bringing the total eventual number of organisations to 62. But so few of us know what they are or what they will do.
For starters…