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By starting their own entrepreneurial and developmental projects, First Nations are working toward economic prosperity for their communities and furthering reconciliation.
A public health expert explains emergency measures recently brought in to manage the impact of Omicron on our stressed health system.
It can be hard to work out what calculations to make when deciding on private health. So we asked a health economist to break it down.
Recent Alberta legislation increasing privatization in the health sector risks undermining the public health-care system, and will likely put profits over the public interest.
New private health insurance data show young people are continuing to drop their cover. But the industry’s argument a youth exodus will put pressure on public hospitals isn’t necessarily right.
In April, private health insurance premiums will increase by an average of 2.92%. It’s the lowest rise in 19 years but still much higher than wages growth. And insurers still make a healthy profit.
The entire premise of effective competition is that purchasing of health services should be based on value - a combination of price and quality.
Top-down reforms like those proposed in the NHI Bill need to be complemented by a bottom-up process of health system strengthening.
South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
South Africa’s Competition Commission has delayed the release of the final report of an inquiry into the private healthcare again.
Australia is the only country in the OECD that allows specialists complete freedom to set their own fees. This puts patients at risk – but the government can help protect them.
In the final instalment of our series, Lesley Russell asks whether Australians need private health insurance, and what a two-tiered systems means for quality, access and equity.
Any new such financing system would need to carefully balance competition and choice, with affordability of coverage and equal access to quality care.
Private insurance, by its very nature, suppresses price signals and encourages over-servicing and cost escalation.
Some people balk at the cost of private insurance – especially the relatively young and healthy – because they don’t see the value of it when they are already covered under Medicare.
How much do Australians pay for private health insurance?
Australia’s population is in the midst of considerable demographic change, with a proportional rise in older age groups. Medical successes can now save the lives of those who would have died from illnesses…
In the lead-up to the budget on May 13, the Tony Abbott government is looking for ways to make the health dollar go further. In 2011-12 the federal government spent A$14.4 billion on public and private…
Prompted by the government’s Commission of Audit, health policy analysts have spent the first weeks of the year vigorously debating ways to rein in Australia’s rising health budget and to make the system…
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Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
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Senior Policy Adviser, National Rural Health Alliance; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
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Policy Head, Research Assets, Sax Institute; Co-Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Adelaide
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Public Health, Victoria University, Victoria University
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Health sociologist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Bologna, University of Newcastle
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Chair of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies, Adjunct Professor in the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Cumming School of Medicine; Member, AMR One Health Consortium, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba
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Assistant Dean: Strategic Affairs, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
