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Health, Wealth And Public Hospitals
Wednesday December 31, 2008
THE economist Milton Friedman once argued that licensing of medical practitioners was unnecessary. The patients of good doctors would live, while those of bad ones would die. The market would weed out incompetent physicians. The Howard government never ventured that far down the ideological track on health, but it did use the tax system to force many Australians into private health insurance. The revelation that private hospitals now undertake most of the surgery performed in Australia is a ...