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since 1984 our health needs have changed but the system hasn’t. 3 reforms to update it

  • Written by Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
since 1984 our health needs have changed but the system hasn’t. 3 reforms to update itAli Goldstein/Unsplash

Forty years ago, Medicare as we know it today was born. It was the reincarnation of the Whitlam government’s Medibank, introduced in 1975 but dismantled in stages by the Fraser Liberal government.

Medibank was developed in the 1960s by health economists Dick Scotton and John Deeble, when disease prevalence was different...

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