The price of health : Australian governments and medical politics, 1910-1960
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The price of health : Australian governments and medical politics, 1910-1960
(Studies in Australian history)
Cambridge University Press, 1991
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  Iwate
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [334]-348
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I. Medicine and the State: 1900 to 1939: 1. 'A game of animal grab', medical practice, 1920-39
- 2. National hygiene and nationalization: the failure of a federal health policy, 1918-39
- 3. Doctors, the states and interwar medical politics
- 4. The defeat of national health insurance
- Part II. The Reconstruction of Medicine? Planning and Politics, 1940 to 1949: 5. The BMA wins the War
- 6. From 'Sales and service' to 'cash and carry': the planning of postwar reconstruction
- 7. Paying the doctor: the BMA caught between salaried medicine and fee-for-service
- 8. Relieving the patient, not the doctor: the Hospital Benefits Act
- 9. A war of attrition: the fate of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme
- 10. The limits of reform: the Chifley government and a national health service, 1945-9
- Part III. The Public and the Private: 11. Private practice, publicly funded: the Page health service
- 12. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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