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	<title>Crikey &#187; public hospitals</title>
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		<title>Give me a rebate, public hospitals need private health insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/12/private-health-insurance-rebate-public-hospitals-need-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/12/private-health-insurance-rebate-public-hospitals-need-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 03:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the current rate of growth in hospital admissions in Australia continues, private hospitals can expect to be treating 50% of all hospital patients by 2021. Imagine if the public sector alone had to undertake all this work, writes <b>Michael Roff</b>, CEO of the Australian Private Hospitals Association.]]></description>
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		<title>Health reform: you wouldn’t wish it on a baby</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/health-reform-you-wouldn%e2%80%99t-wish-it-on-a-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/health-reform-you-wouldn%e2%80%99t-wish-it-on-a-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nhs waiting lists]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If health reform was a baby, you’d have to say that it’s facing an exceedingly tough start to life.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How hospital emergency departments are forced to &#8220;sell&#8221; patients</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/05/04/how-hospital-emergency-departments-are-forced-to-sell-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/05/04/how-hospital-emergency-departments-are-forced-to-sell-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 21:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Sweet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cost-shifting, blame-shifting and patient-shifting are an integral part of our health system, and the COAG health reforms are unlikely to signal their demise, writes Sydney emergency registrar <b>Dr Clare Skinner</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Australia hasn’t run out of hospital beds &#8212; we’ve run out of nurses</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/04/20/australia-hasnt-run-out-of-hospital-beds-weve-run-out-of-nurses/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/04/20/australia-hasnt-run-out-of-hospital-beds-weve-run-out-of-nurses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nurses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hosptial reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of public hospital beds, says former AMA Chairman <b>Dr Peter Arnold</b>. There are beds aplenty -- just in closed wards. And the wards are closed because there <em>is</em> a shortage of nurses.]]></description>
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		<title>Brumby runs wild against Rudd</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/09/brumby-runs-wild-against-rudd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/04/09/brumby-runs-wild-against-rudd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 22:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brumby vs Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospital reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Daily media wrap</b>: Victorian Premier John Brumby has gone rogue, slamming Rudd's public hospital health reform policy and suggesting his own. Is Brumby just trying to show Canberra up or are his objections valid?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Private health insurance: the leech sucking on our sick blood</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/02/22/1558/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2010/02/22/1558/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shakira Hussein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affordable health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medibank private]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Private health care is an evil publicly funded roach that feasts on people’s middle-of-the-night fears and if we had any guts we would crush it beneath our heels, says <b>Shakira Hussein</b>, as she reveals why she just bought it anyway.]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s how Rudd could resuscitate our public hospitals</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/here%e2%80%99s-how-rudd-could-resuscitate-our-public-hospitals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/here%e2%80%99s-how-rudd-could-resuscitate-our-public-hospitals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, Kevin Rudd promised to fix Australia’s public hospitals if the states had not done so in a year. He would be foolish to blindly follow his National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s recommendations, writes <b>David Penington</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Agnostics need faith in private hospital sector</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/31/agnostics-need-faith-in-private-hospital-sector/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/31/agnostics-need-faith-in-private-hospital-sector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicola Roxon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t be agnostic when the whole point of contracting out public services is to gain the cost and productivity benefits of the more efficient private sector, writes <b>Jeremy Sammut</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Public hospital “guidelines” funded by drug maker</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/public-hospital-guidelines-funded-by-drug-maker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/public-hospital-guidelines-funded-by-drug-maker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The push for widespread use of an anti-blood clot drug has been described as “scandalous,” writes <b>Ray Moynihan</b>. 
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		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/17/public-hospital-guidelines-funded-by-drug-maker/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Abbott plan puts politics before health</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/02/the-abbott-plan-puts-politics-before-health/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/02/the-abbott-plan-puts-politics-before-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health and community services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minister tony abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[private health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serious health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s very kind of the media to allow Minister Tony Abbott to keep the election focus on the perennial problems of public hospitals. This not only gives him an easy shot at the states, but also helps distract public attention from areas where the health buck stops firmly at his government’s feet.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/10/02/the-abbott-plan-puts-politics-before-health/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s hospitals takeover – read the fine print!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/rudds-hospitals-takeover-read-the-fine-print/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/08/24/rudds-hospitals-takeover-read-the-fine-print/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[council of australian governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy document]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public hospitals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Kevin Rudd plan to reform the health system and , if necessary, take over the hospitals has many sound policy features. But let the buyer beware, writes Robert Wells.]]></description>
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