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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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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.
WA public hospitals have more bureaucrats and fewer nurses
WA public hospitals have more bureaucrats and fewer nurses than the average public hospital in Australia according to a major report to be released in Perth by the Institute of Public Affairs.
Breaking through medical myths
Lifting the veil of health 'stakeholders'... Earlier this year, the new Minister for Health referred to the need to ‘rebuild health services after the last decade of neglect' as only 73.4 per cent of all Medicare services were being...
A revolution in healthcare
Medicine meets the marketplace.
In harm's way
How 'health promotion' has damaged the relationship between doctor and patient.
HIV/AIDS medicines for all?
There are few more important issues facing developing nations than the HIV/AIDS crisis. HIV/AIDS destroys lives, consumes scarce resources, and provides yet another unneeded brake on the path to growth for many developing nations. The developed...
SiCKO: Michael Moore's latest fantasy
Amending TRIPS: Protecting Property Rights and Public Health.
Submission to the DFAT review of the TRIPS and Public Health Amendment
