From: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/visible-hand-marc-miller-50bxe/?trackingId=zGWbrElP1XAxlm5DK64e6g%3D%3D The Visible Hand Strategy + Transactions December 11, 2024 Government intervention and regulation long ago put a stake through the heart of free markets, none more so than in private health insurance (PHI) in Australia. While subsidising premiums for lower income consumers to the tune of c. $6.7bn p/annum, the Commonwealth imposes an unparalleled level of regulation upon the market, the following being a non-exhaustive list: • The model of PHI is imposed – community (not risk) rated
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From: https://www.ausdoc.com.au/opinion/my-fit-and-active-patient-woke-up-to-find-an-nfr-on-her-hospital-record-the-scourge-of-ageism/ My patient presented to a private hospital, haemorrhaging, and was assessed as too unstable to be managed there. She was transferred to the ED of a public hospital and taken straight into resuscitation. She was asked if she wanted to be resuscitated. “It depends on what I have,” she said. At that point no-one knew. She was asked if she had an advance care directive. “Yes,” she told them. Did she bring it with her? No,
September 20, 2024 | Australian, The: Web Edition Articles (Australia) Author/Byline: Steve Robson | Section: Inquirer 2240 Words Australians could be forgiven for thinking their health system is crumbling around them at the worst possible time. We read reports of patients dying while waiting for ambulances to arrive, or in the back of ramped ambulances queueing up outside emergency departments. The number of Australians waiting for surgery in our public hospitals has reached an unprecedented level. Outside of public hospitals,
The New York Times (International Edition), Wednesday, 27 December 2023 Why the world needs its own immune system We should seize the moment right now to build a new set of protections against future public health crises. Opinion | We Need a Global Immune System to Stop Future Public Health Crises – The New York Times (nytimes.com) The thing that has surprised me most since I began my job leading foreign assistance for global health at the U.S. Agency for