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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      28 November 1991
      ISBN:
      9780511470189
      9780521381833
      9780521523226
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470189
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 378 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.528kg, 380 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History, Australian History, Twentieth Century Regional History
      Series:
      Studies in Australian History
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    Subjects:
    History, Australian History, Twentieth Century Regional History
    Series:
    Studies in Australian History
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    No area of social welfare in Australia has seen as much conflict as health policy. Clashes have involved the medical profession, bureaucrats, friendly societies and political parties, often to the detriment of the patient. This 1991 book provides background to the current debate by studying the political conflict over health policy in Australia from 1910–60. It looks at both state and national levels for the origins of the system of publicly subsidized private practice epitomized in the fee-for-service scheme. The different currents within state policy are analysed along with the various obstructions to the development of the national health insurance policy. The role of the British Medical Association, which in its indigenous form continues to have a hostile relationship with the government because of its determination to maintain its independence and fee-for-service practices, is closely examined. The Price of Health will be of particular interest to health policy makers.

    Reviews

    "...quite persuasive in proposing a complex and nuanced reading of Australian medical politics." Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., American Political Science Review

    "...it will be an important source for future students of the period." Anne Crichton, Pacific Affairs

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