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One system needed for healthcare

Posted by: 2UE | 3 June, 2009 - 3:14 PM
John Stanley: One system needed for healthcare State Health Minister John Della Bosca says predictions the Medicare system is facing collapse is accurate. John Stanley outlines how one level of government is needed to run the health system, not three as suggested.

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  • down right bloody discraceful !!!!
    this country is getting to be be exactly like america , everyday !
    the way they do things over there is , how things are being done here !!!
    my poor mother , god rest her soul ,
    always said australia is a little america ,

    now read this below !

    NSW Health director-general Deborah Picone has given a dire prognosis for the current system, saying Australia is heading towards US-style user pays.

    Prof Picone says cost escalations mean universal health care could collapse within five years.

    She is pushing for a system where funding from the commonwealth and states is pooled and then redistributed.

    NSW Health Minister John Della Bosca backs her claims.

    craig Wednesday 3 June, 2009 - 6:53 PM

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