The Guardian • bulkbilling
Issue #2036
Commodification of health care
Since its introduction in 1984, Australia’s national health insurance scheme, Medicare, has been under constant attack from the privateers. Medicare is an anathema to their...
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Issue #2030
Medicare under attack
An investigation by the ABC, and the Nine newspapers Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, claims that $8 billion (approximately thirty per cent) of Medicare’s...
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Issue #2041
Medicare plan – BULK PROFITS
For anyone looking for solutions to the Medicare crisis, the Albanese government’s Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report raises more questions than it answers. It is full...
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Issue #2146
CPA policy on healthcare
Universal access to medical care is fundamental to building a healthy socialist society. Medical expertise, medical institutions, and medical research are part of Australia’s social...
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Issue #2141
DINGO
Increasingly patients visiting their local GP are being told, “sorry we don’t bulk-bill anymore, just can’t afford to keep the practice open if we do.”...
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Issue #2100
More for war in a class budget
“In a cost-of-living crisis, the Labor government is choosing to remove $14.4 billion in funding from the NDIS that will lead to disabled people not...
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Issue #2138
Two Australias
How many CEOs, senior executives, politicians or senior government officials have to choose between paying the rent, skipping meals, purchasing medication, cooling their home, or...
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Issue #2145
EDITORIAL
The term ‘mandate’ is always thrown around just after an election. The general rule is that if a party talks about something during the campaign...
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