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Defending private hospitals is essential to “saving Medicare”

At Monday’s AFR Healthcare Summit, Mark Butler and Anne Ruston should rule in urgent reform that better balances needs of hospital operators and...

Terry Barnes

The Coalition has buckled to Labor pressure. But how both sides will finance their foolish bulk-billing magic pudding remains to be seen.

A Labor-Coalition electoral clash over bulk billing is not only foolish, but masks the fact that so much more needs to be done to keep our...

The Moira Deeming disaster reflects the party’s domination by socially progressive moderates believing the path to winning is to out-Labor Labor.

A climb down by both sides in this libel case would better for the Victorian Liberals than a damning Federal Court judgement.

Instead of protecting private hospitals from predatory insurers, an obsolete contract framework protects hospital operators from full...