Since the Rudd Government initiated a review of the Health and Hospitals Reform in 2008, close to 2 million words have been written in research papers and bulletins and health consumer reviews, urging a direction for the Government to follow.
Health Consumer Groups, aided by public debate, have examined every possible avenue to apply a new direction for Healthcare, not seen since Federation of Australia. Sure, there have modifications along the way, but nothing as dedicated as the 2008 review.
The most common direction seems to be a take-over by Federal Health of a new Healthcare system, to manage the hospital system from Federal financial support.
This, however, has not seemed to the States as palatal exercise as they had hoped, some State Premiers rejecting the review outright!
Not to be seen as hopeless a situation, the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is holding talks individually with each State Premier, explaining how the new Commonwealth Health structure will work in with each State Health authority.
It is going to take some talking to modify the various health empires of past decades. Geoff
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