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1999

• Piecemeal necrosis of Medicare
• Direct questions over health funding

1998

• Consumerism vs professional integrity
• The Future of Medicare: Medi-poor and Medi-profit?
• Howard's private agenda for health care
• Waving the flag for health centres
• Health and Illness in East Timor
• The health implications of the rise of One Nation
• The sick state of private health
• Nation's health a black-and-white issue
• Nurse practitioners are a benefit not a threat

1997

• Trickle Down Health?
• Why Medicare must be defended
• Time for action on waiting lists
• DRS concerns about managed care
• Federal government mishandles health system
• Euthanasia: slippery slopes and pendulums

 

• New Doctor: Journal of the DRS
• Issue 70 Summer 1998/9 contents page includes links to 11 articles
• Issue 69 Winter 1998 contents page includes links to 11 part or full text articles
• Issue 68 Summer 1998 contents page includes
• editorial
• Health a common good
• Markets and efficiency in the hospital sector
• Homeless young people: facilitating their access to primary health care
• Aboriginal health
• supplementary articles index
• Rates of STI's, Pap Smear Abnormalities,  Pregnancy Outcomes in Youth Clinic
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• Media Releases
• Jan to Jun 1999 index  
• 30% health rebate a failure
• Desperate, dispicable and dishonest attempt to drum up business
• Medicare is being killed by stealth warn doctors
• Overseas trained doctors "tip of iceberg" in doctor shortage
• Doctors Call For Patients to Reject Private Health Rebates
• Jul to Dec 1998 index
• Government can't deliver on private health guarantees
• Doctors to lobby against 30% private health insurance rebate
• Land for health deal a national disgrace
• Vote for Medicare: Don't Vote for the Coalition or One Nation
• One Nation health policy is unfair
• Hanson Health Policy - A Loser
• Doctors want some assurances on Medicare
• Doctors Condemn Private Health Industry
• Medicare: Core or Non-Core Promise?
• Doctors Condemn Coalition's Handout to Doctors
• Public Health Not Private Profit
• Who Needs the Money Most?
• Guarantees Needed for the Future of Medicare
• Doctors Condemn Government's Inadequate Rural Health Plan
• Doctors Call for Bipartisan Medicare Commitment
• Tax Reforms Worsen Plight of Public Health
• Why the Medicare Levy is Important
• Putting the Cat in Charge of the Cream
• Doctors condemn Federal government private health insurance waste
• Jan to Jun 1998 index 
• Doctors Call On Coalition To Match ALP Commitment To Public Hospitals
• DRS Opposes One Nation's Stance on Gun Control
• Medicare Bulkbilling Could End Costello Implies
• Doctors Warn of Threat to Health System
• What Does the Federal Budget Really Do For Medicare?
• Doctors Condemn Borbidge Government Sellout
• Doctors Condemn Aged Care Plan As Mean
• Mr Howard's Agenda To Privatise Health Care Is Now Clear
• Premiers Must Hold Out For More Public Hospital Funding
• Doctors Condemn Tobacco Sponsorship of Liberal Party
• Public Hospitals and Medicare Coalition
• How to Fix the Health System
• Private Health Insurance Reforms: Changing the Deck Chairs on the Titanic
• Private Health Insurance: A Dead Cat?
• Increased Prescription Costs: A Tax on the Sick
• Doctors Warn Private Health Funds Killing Medicare
• Doctors Say Last Chance For Drug Sanity
• Doctors Call For More Dental Funding
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health in Australia

• Letters section
  1999
  • Discarded needle risk tiny

  
  1998

  • Health Spending
  • Relaxed and comfortable yet?
  • Politics of equity not envy
  • Assault by another name
  • Tough life before Medicare
  • One Nation holiday in prison
  • Public shows its preference for public health
  • Holding out for more

1997

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• Archives includes
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