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2008                       

14 May 2008              AMA Claims Private Exodus Of A Million: How Much Income Will Its Members Lose?

14 May 2008               Vested Interests On The Attack For Rudd’s Health Budget.
13 May 2008               Budget Health Care: A Welcome Change In Direction?
10 May 2008                Vested Interests Whinging About Less Public Subsidy for Private Health Insurance

6 April 2008                  University Nobbles Academic

27 March 2008              Doctors Half Welcome The Half U Turn In Health Funding

7 March 2008                Another $180 Million in Taxes for Private Health Insurance Industry

8 February 2008            Heath Ledger's Death should not be in vain.

7 January 2008              AMA's call for More Obesity Surgery Misses The Big Issue, An Obesity Epidemic

 

2007

18 November 2007       Doctors Call For Voters to Consider Their Vote in Senate if Concerned About Health

16 November 2007       Doctors Welcome Howards Backflip on Federal Governments Responsibility for Public Hospitals

2 November 2007          Howard still has nothing for Public Hospitals

31 October 2007           Tax Cuts or Better Services: Which Politicians Care?

25 October 2007           AMA Hypocritical on Health System Woes

16 October 2007           $34 Billion Tax Cuts and Worse Services

5 October 2007             Federal Government Slashes Public Hospital Funding

2 October 2007             Public Hospitals: Federal Government Abdicates National Health Planning

27 September 2007       Australia's own "Sicko" Health System

22 September 2007       Labor’s Support for Medicare Safety Net: Grossly Unfair and Economically Inefficient and Irresponsible

28 August 2007             Doctors welcome Federal Money for "Super Clinics"

23 August 2007             Doctors Welcome Public Hospital Plan

11 August 2007             GP Shortage in Cities and Country threatens to end General Practice

1 August 2007               Could Mean End To Affordable Public Hospital Access

11 July 2007                  Politicians Ignore Patient Deaths in Hospital

17 May 2007                Australian doctor crisis deepens

09 May 2007                 Budget Ignores Our Waiting Patients.

08 May 2007                 Federal Government Funded Dental Care - Unlimited For The Rich, Nothing For Most, And A Sagging ‘Safety Net’ For The Desperate

20 April 2007                 Where Are the GPS to treat our patients?

6 April 2007                   Medicare Safety Net Figures Reveal Middle Class Welfare And Pork Barrelling

4 April 2007                   Labor To Abandon Public Hospitals?

24 February 2007          Taxpayers Slugged Again to Pay For Dental Care for the Rich

2006

 26 December 2006      Johnnie’s Battlers to Pay More For the Health Care of the Rich

 05 December 2006      Health Report Ignores Real Issues in Effort to Support Privatisation of Health System

17 November 2006      Government Favours Pharmacists over Patients 

11 November 2006      Government Sleeps as Ten Jumbo Jets of Patients Crash Every Year

4 November 2006        Blame Government, Not Doctors, for Failing Patients with Chronic Illnesses

21 October 2006         Federal Government Funds Dental Care for Rich And Denies it to Poor

21 October 2006         More Health Dollars for Privately Insured as Public Services Ignored

10 October 2006         Howard’s Mental Health Week For Private Patients

9 October 2006           Half Measures for Mental Health Welcome

6 October 2006           Uninsured to Fund even More Healthcare for the rich

4 August 2006             Credit card set to replace Medicare card

4 August 2006             Patients Lose Out As Doctors Enjoy Pharmaceutical Industry Gifts

26 July 2006               Government Must Pay For Doctors’ ‘Free Lunch’

2 May 2006                Patients Miss Out as Sumptuous Gravy Train For Doctors to Continue

 27 April 2006            Medibank Private Sale Means More Taxpayer Dollars for Private Health

8 April 2006               Howard’s Half Measures for Doctor Shortage they Caused

6 April  2006              Half Measures for Mental Health Welcome

5 March 2006             Hospital Crisis: A Legacy Of 10 Years of Howard’s Care

11 February 2006       COAG’s Health Reform: What Happened to the Reform?

08 February 2006       Who Should Judge Drug Safety, The TGA or Tony Abbott?

29  January 2006        Nurse Hotline Tinkering at Edges of Public Hospital Problems

12 January 2006         Taxes wasted, Patients Overtreated…Will the Government Act?

 3 January 2006          US Gears Up to Destroy Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

2 January 2006           AMA puts Doctors First, Patients Last

2 January 2006           Vouchers and Competition for Mental Health a Major Concern

 

2005

 

29 December 2005     More Taxpayers Dollars For Private Health Funds As Public Patients Languish 

23 November 2005      Hospitals Won’t Cope With Bird Flu or Terrorist Attack ..........Time For Federal Government Leadership

 18 November 2005     Bird Flu” – Treatment Needed for all Australians, Not Just The Rich

18 November 2005     Health Minister Puts Health Of Women At Risk

11 November 2005     Abbott Stops Patients Having Cheaper Drugs 

4 November 2005       One in Three Sick Australians Priced Out of Health Care

19 October 2005        Mental Health Report.................Taking Issue Seriously Means Taking Action

30 September 2005    Means Testing Death Knell of Public Health

30 September 2005    Patients Forced to Pay Bills or Suffer

22 September 2005    Doctors Predict Health Minister Abbott Could Ban Abortion

9 August 2005            Patients Miss Out as Drug Costs Rise

26 July 2005               Drug Companies’ Self Regulation Fails Again…Why Is The Government Not Acting?

17 July 2005               Doctors Call on Government to Control Pharmaceutical Industry Advertising

1 June 2005                Doctors Fear For Patients’ Privacy With Electronic Records

28 May 2005             Thousands of Patients Dying Needlessly in Hospitals:Why?

14 May 2005             $30,000 Pay Rise For GPs Fails to Help Patients

11 May 2005             Patients Need Tax Cuts to Afford Proper Health Care

15 April 2005            Patients To Fall Through Medicare Safety Net

5 April 2005              Doctors Condemn Federal Inaction On Public Hospital Waiting Times

9 March 2005           Federal Government Preventing Patients Access To Information About Euthanasia

3 March 2005           Health Insurance Rise Double Blow For All Australians

3 February 2005       Back to the 60’s on abortion

20 January 2005       Insurance Companies Confirm Private Health Too Expensive

 

2004

 

13 December 2004    Public hospitals miss out again

14 November 2004    Surgical college and Federal Government combine to maintain shortage of surgeons.

8 October 2004        AMA rates doctors’ income first, patient care last

8 October 2004       AMA puts doctors first, patients last with its health report card

5 October 2004       AMA puts doctors first, patients last -  with attacks on Medicare Gold

4 October 2004        Bulk billing rates set for further decline

1 October 2004        The Greens make this election a referendum on health

 

30 September 2004   Doctors welcome ALP commitment to fair health care

27 September 2004  Howard producing policies whose success depends on doctors who do not exist.

22 September 2004  AMA concern about doctors, not patients

22 September 2004  Labor’s plans to increase specialist access at public hospitals welcome 

14 September 2004   Government encourages doctors to charge patients more 

7 September 2004    Doctors given green light to charge more

6 September 2004    Doctors Support Universal Bulk Billing

6 September 2004    Doctors’ Fees set to Rise

 

27 August 2004        Bulk billing figures show out of pocket costs for patients skyrocketing

24 August 2004        Abbott’s hollow threat won’t stop wasted health dollars

22 August 2004        Private health rebate increase will take doctors from understaffed public hospitals.

16 August 2004       Doctors warn national health crisis ignored by Howard’s bulk billing gimmick

3 August 2004         Slow death of PBS guaranteed by FTA

3 August 2004         Doctors condemn AMA For Medicare Safety Net rort

 

15 July 2004

Commitment to principles must underpin Labors' Health Policy.

19 July 2004

  Free Trade Deal to Drive up Medicine Costs in Public Hospitals

21 July 2004

  Community Organisations representing millions call for rejection of US Free Trade Agreement

(Joint release)