Comments on: Blueprint maps out how to give Australians a 21st century health system https://www.openforum.com.au/blueprint-maps-out-how-to-give-australians-a-21st-century-health-system/ Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 By: Max Thomas https://www.openforum.com.au/blueprint-maps-out-how-to-give-australians-a-21st-century-health-system/#comment-4381 Tue, 27 Feb 2018 07:27:35 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?post_type=forumpost&p=12175#comment-4381 I’m all for that Alison. The waste and opportunity cost of the present fragmented ‘system’ as it has evolved, is clearly not aligned with progressive health objectives (I was determined not to write ‘sustainable’). The profit motive in health has obvious perils that need to be counterbalanced. That will be a delicate enough operation. But by-passing access to the ‘health’ budget for political purposes will require major surgery.

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