The Medicare Dental Scheme has caused a huge increase in the number of dental care complaints in Victoria in the last year, write Swinburne journalism students Jessica Adams and Sophie Lishman.
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Government clearly caught out on mental health. But…
Mental health — together with other under-served areas, such as dental health and primary care — should have been front-and-centre of the government’s health reform push, writes health journalist Melissa Sweet.
Denticare slammed by private insurers
Denticare — the proposed $3.7 billion plan for a universal dental health scheme — is coming under fire even by those who are likely to reap the cash benefits: private insurers, writes Adam Cresswell.
Fixing health: Crikey reviews the latest report
The much-anticipated report from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission has landed. Bernard Keane gets to grips with the detail.
Fluoride: The mother of all band-aids
Government and now Big Sugar are carpet bombing the water drinkers rather than laser targeting the sugar drinkers, writes David Gillespie.
