What do you think about the National Health Reform (for Canberra)?

It’s got to be better than what we’ve got now

Thanks guys, I appreciate your help!

Agreed with BimboGeek: I believe this is going to be a “watch this space” issue as nothing has firmed up yet. Have seen a few articles flying around discussing the development of networks that will serve as (yet another) layer of bureaucracy in the doling out of healthcare dollars. Am not sold on the documents I’ve seen, but we shall see.

Given that it is a policy developed by KRudd, it will mean nothing for the health system and be as useless as every one if his other policies developed in the last 3 years.

From what I understand the details are nowhere near this detailed yet! It’s not like they are planning on just sitting down and dealing out a bunch of cash now, they’re looking at changing the entire management of the system. There’s so much to go through before they even know what size of budget they have.

For starters, they have to decide on what size of hospital networks, which hospitals go into which networks, who is going to coordinate the hospital networks, whether they’re funding networks based on the types of patients they treat, on a per treatment basis or on a population basis (so there’s more motivation for preventive health) or in the case of rural networks whether they’ll be providing additional budget and resources simply because people have a right to have certain services nearby …

Come back and ask again in a year.