Health
Publications
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TARGET30: Reducing the burden for future generations
| 01 Jul 2013 | Policy ForumTARGET30 is a campaign promoting smaller government and cutting government spending to less than 30% of GDP in the next 10... Read More...
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Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It
| 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 Research PapersHigh growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...
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TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Saving Medicare But NOT As We Know It
| 30 Apr 2013 | TARGET30 SnapshotsHigh growth in health spending is the area of public expenditure that will unsustainably increase the size of government... Read More...
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Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State
| 27 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 Research PapersThe welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need... Read More...
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TARGET30 SNAPSHOT: Tax Welfare Churn and the Australian Welfare State
| 27 Mar 2013 | TARGET30 SnapshotsThe welfare state currently consumes $316 billion a year; however, much of this spending is not targeted at those who need... Read More...
Opinion & Commentary
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Only a super-style savings system now will help Medicare survive
| 30 Apr 2013 | The AustralianTHE intergenerational reports have told us repeatedly that escalating government spending on health is unsustainable in an ... Read More
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Independent thinking for financing future
| 16 Feb 2012 | Hospital and AgedCare MagazineHealth already devours over 10 per cent of GDP each year and 70% of health funding is funnelled through federal and state ... Read More
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Focus on 'prevention' abusing kids
| 09 Nov 2011 | On Line OpinionDespite increasing government spending on programs meant to prevent child abuse and entries into care, record numbers of ... Read More
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Myths, lies and adoption
| 08 Nov 2011 | The Geelong AdvertiserIN 2009-10, 36,000 children were in out-of-home care in Australia and more than two-thirds had been there for at least two ... Read More
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There's no such thing as a free healthcare system
| 27 Aug 2011 | Sydney Morning HeraldBut when it comes to health, Australians spurn pragmatism and tear up the laws of economics. We shackle ourselves with a ... Read More
Ideas@TheCentre
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Prospects for NDIS blowout
| 10 May 2013The NDIS could experience average annual growth of around 8% per year, which would make the entire scheme financial unsustainable ...
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How to save the health system
| 03 May 2013Creating a health savings-based system would go a long way in solving the affordability problems facing Medicare....
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Bottom up and entrepreneurial, not top down bureaucratic health reform
| 05 Apr 2013Cost-effective ways to deliver health care are essential to addressing the financial burdens associated with an ageing population....
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Health savings a super idea
| 08 Mar 2013TARGET30 seems to promote better and more sustainable ways to deliver high-quality health services for all Australians....
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Privatising public health services - sleeping giant of IR debate
| 18 Jan 2013Microeconomic reform is essential in the public health sector to get more and better services for each health dollar spent....
