What does the budget mean for Medicare, medicines, aged care and First Nations health?
- Written by: Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
ShutterstockLabor’s first health budget in almost a decade has few surprises – and that is a good thing.
The budget foreshadows additional annual health and aged care spending of more than A$2.3 billion when initiatives are fully implemented in 2025–26, the end of the four-year forward estimates. The bulk of this is for policy...
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