"Health is consistently nominated in the top three issues that determine peoples’ voting intentions. The lack of attention public health is receiving from politicians in the current election campaign is disturbing" said Doctors’ Reform Society Queensland President, Dr Peter Davoren today.

" The Coalition in particular are concentrating their efforts on subsidising the private health insurance industry with vast sums of taxpayers’money" said Dr Davoren.

"The major parties have been especially quiet on their plans for Medicare in particular their intentions on bulk-billing, co-payments for consultations and means tests for attending a public hospital" said Dr Davoren.

"In this era of the political promise with a ‘use-by date’ the Doctors’ Reform Society calls on the major political parties to publicly state their position on these issues vital to the maintenance of the universal public health care system Australians prefer" said Dr Davoren.

authors/seconders: Peter Davoren, Andrew Gunn, Tracy Schrader
14 September 1998