Anne-Marie Boxall

…that Tony Abbott has recently mused about a Federal Government take-over of public hospitals? When Federal Governments have toyed with the idea of nationalising funding for hospital and medical services in the past, however, it has ended in bitter disputes with organised medicine – in particular, the Australian Medical Association (AMA). The issue is contentious partly because many doctors operate as private practitioners within the public hospital system.
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Stephen Leeder and Anne-Marie Boxall on the proposed changes to Medicare and the lack of dissent surrounding them
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