Government failure is responsible for our private health sector’s high fever
The Competition Commission's high-quality market inquiry shows the system’s defects are not inevitable and can be fixed
02 October 2019 - 15:46
The stark contrast between the dodgy work-up for the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) and the detailed, carefully considered analysis that has gone into the Competition Commission’s health market inquiry reflects two different styles of government.
One is overtly dominated by patronage politics, and the other is careful, meticulous and clean — and able to combine solid technical research with painstaking consultation and high-quality engagement...
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