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Analysis and Comment (1)

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The deal has a narrower focus than the original but still delivers $20 billion of extra funds.

Health agreement diagnosis: ‘watered down but not a total cave in’

By Robert Wells, Australian National University

Health professionals and patients alike breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she had struck a final deal with the states to reform the nation’s hospital system…

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ICU physicians defy utilitarianism

University of Pennsylvania

Intensive Care Unit clinicians often allocate scarce resources towards gravely-ill existing patients rather than freeing…