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Making Medicare : the politics of universal health care in Australia / Anne-Marie Boxall and James A. Gillespie.
Lippincott Library HD7102.U4 B69 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boxall, Anne-Marie, author.
- Gillespie, James A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health Care Reform--history.
- Health services administration.
- History.
- National health services.
- Health planning.
- Health insurance--Government policy.
- Health insurance.
- Medical policy.
- Public health.
- Australia.
- Health Planning--history.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- Health Services Administration--history.
- National Health Programs--history.
- Universal Health Insurance--history.
- Medicare (Australia).
- Public health--Australia--History.
- Medical policy--Australia--History.
- Health insurance--Government policy--Australia.
- Health planning--Australia--History.
- National health services--Australia--History.
- Health services administration--Australia--History.
- Australia--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Reform--history.
- Australia.
- Health Planning--history.
- Delivery of Health Care--history.
- Health Services Administration--history.
- National Health Programs--history.
- Universal Health Insurance--history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2013.
- Summary:
- Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that we largely take for granted. But the road there wasn't easy. Making Medicare is the most comprehensive account of Australia's long, tortuous and unconventional path towards universal health care - it was established, abolished and introduced again - and the reforms that brought it into being. This book details the policy debates that have determined the shape of health care in Australia, but it is not just about the past. The authors offer a timely overview of further reforms needed to address the challenges facing out health care system: new technologies, the ageing population and the rising tide of chronic disease.
- Contents:
- 1 Health reform efforts to the 1950s 15
- 2 Whitlam and health system reform, 1960-74 36
- 3 Making Medibank a reality, 1974-75 52
- 4 Organised medicine versus Medibank 64
- 5 Fraser's health system reforms, 1976-81 78
- 6 Medibank weighed in the balance, 1976-78 90
- 7 Why Fraser abolished Medibank 102
- 8 Hawke brings Medicare into being 114
- 9 The politics of Medicare, 1984-96 143
- 10 John Howard, Medicare's greatest friend? 159
- 11 Current issues, future challenges 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781742233437
- 1742233430
- OCLC:
- 841475633
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