Brumby Outlines Blueprint for Comprehensive National Health Reform
Source: Victoria. Premier. Media Release
"The Premier, John Brumby, outlined a comprehensive reform proposal for the national health system, detailing a ten-point plan focusing on patients and their needs, disease prevention and more flexible and sustainable resourcing. In a speech to a major health conference in Melbourne today, Mr Brumby released the Victorian Government’s proposal, Next Steps in Australian Health Reform, saying Australia needed to take the biggest leap in health care funding since the introduction of Medicare in the 1970s.“It is my hope that these reform proposals can kick-start a serious national debate and form the basis for negotiation and agreement by the States, Territories and the Commonwealth to move forward on implementing substantial national health reform,” Mr Brumby said. In this new era of cooperative federalism, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape and embrace a new, inclusive approach to health in Australia."