Why does health care reform keep failing despite decades of attention and expanding costs? A scholar of Congress has some answers.
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High prescription drug costs are leaving many patients frustrated and unable to afford their medications.
A few hundred extra dollars a month would go a long way for many Coloradans.
Addressing the financial and personal aspects of aging proactively helps to ensure that you will receive the care you need – and want – as you age.
Millions of Americans rely on this network of federally funded health clinics for their primary care.
Whether your GP decides to bulk bill all your visits will depend on on these 6 things.
Short-term renewals of policies such as the ACA subsidies set up repeated battles in Congress.
Without rebates, surgeries for trans people can cost between $20,000 and $100,000.
Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid may harm vulnerable populations that depend on government-funded care. Proponents of such cuts often frame them in a different way.
The health minister also says fewer kids are now vaping because of the government’s ban, which ‘exploded’ as a health problem during the COVID years.
The biggest changes will be to the Medicaid program, which currently covers more than 78 million people. And Congress may cut health care spending further.
A modest increase in health funding is all that’s needed to save lives. That’s a big impact for the price of a fancy coffee.
When that important link is broken, your health gets worse and the costs borne by the whole health care system for your treatment rise.
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
When people over 65 lose Medicaid coverage, they stop seeing their doctors for preventive care due to high costs. This in turn leads to worse health outcomes and higher health care costs.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to launch a 1800MEDICARE advice line from January next year.
Not enough is being said by the major parties in the election about critical health care reforms needed to address access, affordability and funding problems.
Specialists’ fees are high, vary across specialties and across geographical regions. And you can search for who’s charging what near you.
Here’s what the government’s new funding package for mental health gets right – and where it falls short.
Patients have been slow to sign up for MyMedicare. But what is MyMedicare? And how could we learn from other countries to help patients enrol?
Top contributors
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Health economist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Reader in Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor in Health Economics, Curtin University