The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910-1960No area of social welfare in Australia has seen as much conflict as health policy. Clashes have involved the medical profession, bureaucrats, friendly societies and political parties, often to the detriment of the patient. This 1991 book provides background to the current debate by studying the political conflict over health policy in Australia from 1910-60. It looks at both state and national levels for the origins of the system of publicly subsidized private practice epitomized in the fee-for-service scheme. The different currents within state policy are analysed along with the various obstructions to the development of the national health insurance policy. The role of the British Medical Association, which in its indigenous form continues to have a hostile relationship with the government because of its determination to maintain its independence and fee-for-service practices, is closely examined. The Price of Health will be of particular interest to health policy makers. |
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The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910-1960 James A. Gillespie No preview available - 1991 |
The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910-1960 James A. Gillespie No preview available - 1991 |
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AA CRS administrative areas Australian Medical Association BMA NSW BMA Vic Brisbane British Cabinet Canberra central Chifley Chuter Cilento clinics CMCC co-ordination Committee Commonwealth Department cost Cumpston Department of Health doctors drugs Federal Council fee-for-service fees formulary friendly societies funds health policy health scheme honorary Hospital Benefits hospital system income insurance scheme interwar Journal of Australia JPCSS Labor governments lodge practice major means testing medical benefits Medical Journal medical officers medical practice medical practitioners medical profession Melbourne ment Minutes national health insurance national health service national hygiene national hygienists national insurance national medical service NHMRC organized medicine patients pensions pharmaceutical benefits scheme planning private practice problems programme public health public hospitals Queensland Raphael Cilento reform Report Royal Commission salaried medical salaried service Social Security socialized medicine South Australia South Wales specialists subsidy Sydney Tasmania Victorian Victorian branch warned Welfare