If the government wants to pursue more public-private partnerships, it must consider a funding model that guarantees equity of access.
Articles on Private health
Displaying 1 - 20 of 28 articles
The government has allowed private health insurers to raise premiums by an average of 4.41% from April. How are these set? And why is it higher than inflation?
The proposal could reignite debate about the ethics of allowing tax-exempt charities to operate large businesses in competition with taxable, for-profit companies.
Too many people miss out on seeing specialist doctors, while others face long waits or high costs. A new Grattan Institute report outlines a blueprint for reform.
Waiting lists and long-term care are among the factors driving more people to pay out.
You may feel little sympathy for people in the top bracket of earnings, but don’t let that stop you reading. Like it or not, their views and actions matter to everyone
By starting their own entrepreneurial and developmental projects, First Nations are working toward economic prosperity for their communities and furthering reconciliation.
A public health expert explains emergency measures recently brought in to manage the impact of Omicron on our stressed health system.
It can be hard to work out what calculations to make when deciding on private health. So we asked a health economist to break it down.
Recent Alberta legislation increasing privatization in the health sector risks undermining the public health-care system, and will likely put profits over the public interest.
New private health insurance data show young people are continuing to drop their cover. But the industry’s argument a youth exodus will put pressure on public hospitals isn’t necessarily right.
In April, private health insurance premiums will increase by an average of 2.92%. It’s the lowest rise in 19 years but still much higher than wages growth. And insurers still make a healthy profit.
The entire premise of effective competition is that purchasing of health services should be based on value - a combination of price and quality.
Top-down reforms like those proposed in the NHI Bill need to be complemented by a bottom-up process of health system strengthening.
South Africa’s planned NHI has no equivalent in any setting in the world. It’s deeply flawed on a number of fronts.
South Africa’s Competition Commission has delayed the release of the final report of an inquiry into the private healthcare again.
Australia is the only country in the OECD that allows specialists complete freedom to set their own fees. This puts patients at risk – but the government can help protect them.
In the final instalment of our series, Lesley Russell asks whether Australians need private health insurance, and what a two-tiered systems means for quality, access and equity.
Any new such financing system would need to carefully balance competition and choice, with affordability of coverage and equal access to quality care.
Private insurance, by its very nature, suppresses price signals and encourages over-servicing and cost escalation.
Top contributors
-
Lecturer, Public Sector Finance, University of Canberra
-
Senior Policy Adviser, National Rural Health Alliance; Adjunct Lecturer, University of Sydney
-
Emeritus Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University
-
Health sociologist, University of Sydney
-
Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University
-
Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
-
Policy Head, Research Assets, Sax Institute; Co-Director, Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Manitoba
-
Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
-
Senior Lecturer, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University
-
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor, School of Economics and Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
-
Honorary Research Fellow, UCL Social Research Institute, UCL