President, Doctors Reform Society, an organisation dedicated to society where preventable causes of inequity are eliminated. Day job arthritis specialist
User pays, co-payments, itemised care. No examples in health care of such systems delivering equity. Need adequately funded public system. Need adequate progressive tax system without rorts. https://t.co/QmidsoWQG2
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@stephenjduckett Give the relatively powerless a belief in a future so that they will be interested in a healthy lifestyle. Tax reform, raise the rate, housing reform, even a Basic Income Guarantee. Strugglers would feel empowered and interested in their own future because they can see one
@stephenjduckett Sure let's manage food industry. Their emphasis has been on individual behaviour. The elephant in the room. Social determinants of health. Clear gradient of obesity and socioeconomic status. Poor people live for the moment. Rich people plan for their future.
@stephenjduckett appropriate recognition of problem. Solution: markets! Recognises thin markets but ignores public provision of services like hospitals, emergency s etc. ?ideological market fixation
Medicare Restructure A Start. 1/2 as much as needed. No action on current bulk billing crisis. An emergency ignored. Poverty kills so why keep dole below poverty line. @drsreform @LaTrioi @abcadelaide@AusHealthReform@MelissaSweetDr
2 months prescriptions: winners=patients doctors medical practices Gov. Losers=pharmacists. Savings reinvested in pharmacies but how? ALP taken on 1 union, will it take on doctors union, AMA next. @NC_Robinson @drsreform@MelissaSweetDr@AusHealthReform
Bulk Billing for Patients: Radical Ideas to Achieve a Fair Go Welcomed. See https://t.co/yBNVjMUOKO
Our thoughts below or https://t.co/wk8vGCkIrv @MelissaSweetDr @NC_Robinson @AusHealthReform@Mon4Kooyong@sop
Submarines yes, Bulk billing patients so they can access health care, no. Medicare will have to wait for the budget. Bulk billing rates falling as 'defence' rises. https://t.co/YWXNdoZUmu @AusHealthReform@MelissaSweetDr @Sue_Dunlevy @
@stephenjduckett seldom disagree S, but weekly I need to correct ph advice to my patients on change dosage, let alone ceasing meds. Only occ have to correct GP advice. I am specialist. A step to far
Bulk billing rates falling. People missing out on care. Who cares? No action yet, just good plans and rhetoric. Things can be done immediately to help most vulnerable. What's the problem Minister? @AusHealthReform@MelissaSweetDr@Mark_Butler_MP