A succession of clinical trials is upending the field

A submission to a Parliamentary Inquiry by The Australia Institute reveals that seeing a specialist in Australia is now more impacted by a patient's ability to pay than their medical need.

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11 November 1996, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

A dangerous genie is trying to escape from its bottle. Letting it out will diminish us as a people and a nation. Beating hate requires leadership, investment and institutions that help people belong. ...

Last week, Health Minister Mark Butler told the ABC that the government would be moving forward with its proposal to change private health insurance rebates for older Australians. The proposed change ...

Australia’s win against tobacco shows that we can solve big public health problems. But there are other health epidemics that we’re way behind on. When it comes to obesity – a major risk factor in man...

The $17 billion in revenue that Australia is foregoing each year by failing to properly tax gas exports is enough to fund many of the essential services Australians rely on. One example is the Pharmac...

This is the first of two articles examining the value private health insurance and private healthcare bring to the Australian healthcare system.

Australia has more than $11 billion sitting in philanthropic funds that have already received generous tax deductions. Much of that money is intended for public good, but only a small portion is requi...

New research shows fossil fuel subsidies will reach $16.3 billion in 2025–26, rising faster than the NDIS. Handouts to mining giants are growing faster than support for Australians with disability.

To get a firearm licence in Australia requires having a “genuine reason” to own a gun. In most jurisdictions, this requirement can be satisfied by being a paid-up member of a sports shooting club. Sho...

The Four Corners program aired on Monday night detailed how Melbourne gynaecologist Simon Gordon performed surgeries to remove the ovaries and uteruses of dozens of young women who did not need these ...

The 78% fee increase since 2010 shows that specialists are simply charging what the market will bear.

This piece is based on the Australian healthcare landscape but most of the concepts can be applied to any hybrid system. It’s becoming clear that Australia’s private healthcare sector is in a moment o...

‘Illness is nature’s attempt to heal us.’ – Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain.

Medical care contributes relatively little to population health compared to social determinants of health. Yet we continue to privilege medical care. Governments devote billions to hospitals and pharm...

Australia’s health system is beginning to resemble the US. We must change course

Life as a homelessness case worker is brutal. You often feel like the last stop on the train line of our country’s social failures. Hardest of all is knowing that people aren’t helped as well as they ...

I attended a health policy conference recently where concepts like 'value', 'productivity', 'efficiency' and ‘equity’ were invoked in just about every session.

A new US law enables the country's largest health insurer to negotiate the price of certain drugs based on their benefit to the user. The pharmaceutical industry isn't happy.

Research generally suggests that routine surveillance after cancer treatment finds more recurrences — leading to more surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation — without affecting the risk of death.

Over the past two decades, the health care spending growth rate in the United States has declined. But reducing the emphasis on value-based care could lead to a resurgence in spending growth.