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Australian health policy is a mess of state and federal confusion, myths about the negative consequences of choice and competition, and nanny state measures which aim to restrict individual behaviour. The Institute of Public Affairs examines health policy from the perspective of markets and competition, with the aim of rejuvinating debate about this vital sector.
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Market lessons from the financial crisis
The lesson of the global financial crisis is that freer markets work and are vital to address our current local challenges. At the heart of the...
Private health accounts may solve looming health crisis
In a society as wealthy as ours it's understandable that Australians support universal access to healthcare. But accepting this principle and the...
Medicare needs a shot in the arm
Structural reform of Australian healthcare financing can cut inequity and promote universal choice as well as universal service delivery. In a...
Plain packs pointless when smoke gets in our eyes
When the Rudd government's National Preventative Health Taskforce released a position paper on anti-tobacco measures, they titled it "Making...
Let market decide on board seats
In the lead-up to International Women's Day, the drums were again beating on the issue of women in company boardrooms. Governor-General Quentin...
Healthy living... in a nanny state
If there was one area of human existence which should be left to individual choice, you'd think it would be what we eat. So the National Preventive...
Publications
The Impact and Cost of Health Sector Regulation
Every Australian deserves the opportunity to access high quality health care services. Those services should improve quality of life while remaining affordable. Increasingly however, Australia's health system is bowing under the weight of a...
Preventative Health Taskforce Report - A Grab For Government Power Over Our Lives
The National Preventative Health Taskforce's report released today is a grab for more bureaucratic power, and a grab for more tax by government, said the Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think tank.
Taking the Pulse: Reform Initiatives for the WA Health System
A new report by Ross Fox in conjunction with the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation examining the public health system in Western Australia.
