Privatising Medicare: the increasing out-of-pocket expenditure on medical care and health in Australia

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dc.contributor.author	Yusuf, Farhat
dc.contributor.author	Leeder, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned	2017-10-26
dc.date.available	2017-10-26
dc.date.issued	2017-10-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17326
dc.description	Lunchtime seminar recording	en
dc.description.abstract	The out-of-pocket (OOP) cost of medical care and health in Australia increased by 25.4% between 2009-10 and 2015-16 according to recent figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This was much greater than the 15.3% growth in the total household expenditure on all goods and services during the same period. This comparatively large increase in OOP expenditure is not new, according to estimates compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare from various administrative records. In this presentation we will discuss our detailed analysis of the data on OOP expenditure using the two most recent Household Expenditure Surveys conducted by the ABS. Policy implications and suggestions for curtailing the increasing OOP expenditure on medical care and health will also be discussed.	en
dc.rights	Other
dc.subject	medicare	en
dc.subject	out-of-pocket	en
dc.subject	expenditure	en
dc.title	Privatising Medicare: the increasing out-of-pocket expenditure on medical care and health in Australia	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en
usyd.faculty	Faculty of Medicine and Health, Centre for Disability Research and Policy	en
usyd.department	Menzies Centre for Health Policy	en