RIS ID
108610
Abstract
Forget semantics; Federal health policies that undermine bulk billing and encourage 'user-pays' charging of patients for primary care move Australia towards a US-style health care system. They are expected to cost the health system more, not A$12 billion less, and undermine Medicare's bottom-line universal access equity, efficiency and health outcome objectives.
Publication Details
Eckermann, S. & Sheridan, L. (2016). Supporting Medicare health, equity and efficiency in Australia: policies undermining bulk billing need to be scrapped. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 14 (5), 511-514.