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Media Releases July 2003 - June 2004

14 June                   Patients at risk as drug prices set to rise

10 June                   Federal Government slugs patients with sixty percent increase in copayments

2 June 2004             Medicare Advertising Package Steals Health From Patients

24 May 2004           Taxes And Lies As Medicare Dies

13 May 2004           Children Die As The Rich Get Richer

11 May 2004           Budget Confirms Howard’s Disrespect for the views of the People

7 May 2004            Alternative Health Budget Patients First, Tax Cuts Last

3 April 2004           Healthcare Reform: Market Forces Or Patient Care?

10 March 2004       Doctors Warn FTA Could Cause PBS Cost Increase.

10 March 2004	    Medicare Minus: Short Term Gain And Long Term Pain For Patients 
5 March 2004	    Government Throws Patients Overboard As It Tampers With PBS
29 February 2004   Patients Dying In Hospitals Across Australia: Where Is The Federal Health Minister? 
17 February 2004   Private Hospitals Leech Staff From Desperate Public Hospitals
2 February 2004	    Doctors Give Half Eaten Medicare Cake to Mr Abbott
20 January 2004	    Doctors Warn Bulk Billing Will Die Under Medicare Plus
13 January 2004	   Private Health Insurance Premiums Rise Again: More Taxes Wasted While Public Hospitals Struggle
13 January 2004	   Bulk Billing Rates To Fall Again Under Medicare Plus
12 January 2004	   Doctors warn patient lives at risk in Australian Public Hospitals

02 January 2004        Patients suffer as hospitals clogged by the Aged

18 December 2003    Medical Indemnity- Another Nail in the Coffin of Medicare and the Public Hospital System

15 December 2003    More Hospital Funding Or We Will Be Counting More Bodies

12 December 2003    Deaths in Sydney Hospitals Tip of the Iceberg

9 December 2003      Tax Cuts Not Wanted

 3 December 2003     Is The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Worth More Than Pork Chops? .

 

23 November 2003    Doctors Call on Senate to Reject Anti Medicare Legislation!

18 November 2003    Medicare Plus Unsustainable Recipe for Blowout in Health Costs

18 November 2003    Howard Throws Sick and Needy Overboard into Saggy “Safety Net”

12 November 2003    Howard Throws Sick and Needy into Saggy Medicare `Safety Net’

 

26 October 2003       Government Flags Destruction of Bulk Billing

22 October 2003       Government Misleads Patients About the Cost of Pharmaceuticals

18 October 2003       Architect of Medicare Warns of its Demise

10 October 2003       Patients need to be Alert and Alarmed

2 October 2003        Mothers and Babies lives at Risk due to Doctor shortage

 

22 August 2003         TRUTH, PATIENTS, AND HEALTH CARE THROWN OVERBOARD AS GOVERNMENT USES TAXES TO

                                   CONTINUE DECEPTION ABOUT MEDICARE

19 August 2003          PATIENTS LIVES AT RISK AS HEALTH MINISTER IGNORES DOCTORS  AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

3 August 2003            DOCTORS WARN PATIENTS’ LIVES AT RISK

 

22 July 2003              DOCTORS WARN DEATH OF MEDICARE WILL MEAN DEATH OF PATIENTS

 

Media releases January 2003 to December 2003

 

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