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The search for better financing of health care, including that for people with chronic illness
Author(s) -
Yen Laurann E,
Wells Robert W,
Gillespie James A,
Leeder Stephen R
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00992.x
Subject(s) - management , research centre , library science , health care , medicine , sociology , political science , law , economics , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 7 May 2007 186 9 438-439 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2007 www.mja.com.au Editorials The Blame Game describes conflict in the divisio responsibilities between federal and state governm disconnection between public and private health syst these factors as causes of impaired economic efficienc are), but without linking them to the changing natu of disease in Australia. Like atheromatous plaques tolerated for years, A wholly state-funded or federally funded system of health care, concentrating on providing integrated services, might circumvent the political blame game