Federal budget - analysis of health aspects

The Conversation has run a number of articles in the last week about the latest budget and its implications for health.

• Mental health funding in the 2017 budget is too little, unfair and lacks a coherent strategy by Sebastian Rosenberg, University of Sydney. Discusses how underfunded mental health will remain after this budget.
• New drugs on the PBS: what they do and why we need them - here, Nial Wheate, University of Sydney, looks at notable drugs that were added to the PBS at the beginning of this month. 7. 
• Don’t be fooled, the Medicare Guarantee Fund provides no real guarantee is from the Grattan Institute's Stephen Duckett, who argues that this fund is not new at all and is not helpful for public hospitals. 
• Budget 2017 sees Medicare rebate freeze slowly lifted and more funding for the NDIS: experts respond  - various commentary from Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute; Chris Del Mar; Elizabeth Savage, University of Technology Sydney; Helen Dickinson, UNSW; Michael Woods, University of Technology Sydney