Political platforms, pressure groups and the defence of health care in the 1980s.
With 14 major changes in health care financing since 1970, it is surely time to consider some basic principles and health policies that ought to be immutable--at least for longer than 10 months at a time. The paper reviews the federal health policies of the three major parties--and asks whether the various health sector interest groups can afford to leave consensus to the parliamentary system.
D001315:Australia; D006291:Health Policy; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics; D011057:Politics