Fed: Limited support for big bang healthcare funding change
CANBERRA, Dec 10 AAP - There was only limited support for a big-bang change to healthcarefinancing in Australia, the Productivity Commission said today.
It commissioned earlier this year an economic model for managed competition in healthcare, in which the government would provide funds for healthcare providers to buy servicesfrom a range of competing providers.
"The introduction of managed competition would involve substantial changes to Australia'shealth financing and service delivery arrangements," the commission said.
"As such, it would represent a big-bang reform."
A workshop organised by the commission to discuss the managed competition model foundonly limited support for the full implementation.
"Many judged it would be preferable to give priority to related incremental reformsoffering the prospect of clearer net gains to the community in the short to medium term,"
the commission said in a report on the workshop proceedings.
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KEYWORD: HEALTHCARE
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