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A system dependent on charity.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-04
Format: Online - approximately 719 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A system dependent on charity.(Bites: brief notes on news and views from around the world)

Article Excerpt
An examination of the Howard Government's major health funding decisions over the last eight years reveals the clear but careful intent to gradually strengthen the Coalition's marketplace values. However, for markets to function in the interests of both the buyers and sellers, the two groups must have similar levels of power. In the case of doctors and patients, the power inequalities are huge.

We should be reassured that there are mechanisms to limit the negative impacts on patients in this distorted market. There are safety nets, the most prominent being Abbott's Medicare Plus scheme, the complexity of which largely fails the most financially and medically needy people...

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