Comments on: Coalition plan to hack into Medicare Locals unwinds reform http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/22/coalition-plan-to-hack-into-medicare-locals-unwinds-reform/ now with extra source Wed, 22 May 2013 12:21:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Salamander http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/11/22/coalition-plan-to-hack-into-medicare-locals-unwinds-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-229251 Salamander Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:19:27 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=332887#comment-229251 The Opposition is working together with the psychiatric lobby - medical shrinks who are worried about competition to their entrenched monopoly on fee-for-service medicine. Medicare Locals and the Better Access program represents a competitive threat to the monopolists' prosperity. The Federal Opposition, spurred on by this psychiatric/medical lobby, is trying to dismantle the recent Govt schemes that enable psychologists - the non-medical shrinks who specialise in non-drug treatments - to finally have some limited access to Medicare rebates for their patients. The monopolist lobby likes to portray their own campaign as a fight for equity or some such (how ironic!) and includes Prof Ian Hickie of Sydney University Mind Brain Institute and colleagues (who have had articles published in past issues of Crikey). The Opposition is working together with the psychiatric lobby - medical shrinks who are worried about competition to their entrenched monopoly on fee-for-service medicine. Medicare Locals and the Better Access program represents a competitive threat to the monopolists’ prosperity.

The Federal Opposition, spurred on by this psychiatric/medical lobby, is trying to dismantle the recent Govt schemes that enable psychologists - the non-medical shrinks who specialise in non-drug treatments - to finally have some limited access to Medicare rebates for their patients.

The monopolist lobby likes to portray their own campaign as a fight for equity or some such (how ironic!) and includes Prof Ian Hickie of Sydney University Mind Brain Institute and colleagues (who have had articles published in past issues of Crikey).

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