Jeremy Sammut from the Centre for Independent Studies has written a report which traces the evolution of Australian health policy and its consequences across half a century. The report discusses how the public hospital ‘crisis,’ a political nightmare for all Australian governments, is a legacy of the health policy upheavals of the 1970s and early 1980s, which culminated with the start of Medicare in 1984. Long waits for hospital treatment in Australia are caused by the structural funding inefficiencies at the heart of Medicare, which is a ‘reverse insurance’ system that provides ‘inverse care’ for Australians.
Download or read the report here.
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