NEWS ANALYSIS: Politicians need to drop hostility to help fix private health care
Minister will appoint board after a public nomination process, and it will have the autonomy to appoint its chair, CEO and all other executives
02 October 2019 - 05:08
UPDATED 02 October 2019 - 17:05
The Competition Commission’s health market inquiry, which released its final report on Monday, has told us what many patients who use the private sector already know: prices are rising faster than consumer inflation, expensive tests and investigations are offered at the drop of a hat, and there is no way of finding out ahead of time whether a doctor or hospital provides care that is better or worse than their peers.
Patients are thus buying blind...
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