Damning report is part of doctors’ push for 50-50 federal and state funding ahead of national cabinet meeting
The report calls for: 50-50 federal and state hospital funding; the abolition of the 6.5% annual cap on the growth of the commonwealth’s contribution; and introduction of pay-for-performance targets, a measure Robson told reporters in Canberra would ensure “that hospitals that perform well are rewarded”.agreed during the first two years of the Covid pandemic, the federal government has not been keen to revisit the national health reform agreement which runs until 2025.
“We said at the election that there was no higher priority for Labor in the health portfolio than strengthening Medicare and rebuilding general practice in particular, because the constant advice we have received across the country is that after nine years of cuts and neglect to Medicare, it has never been harder to see a doctor,” he said.
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