Health: Health crisis obscured by ideology*

Bob Browning explains how ideologues of both big government and free market forces have obscured the facts behind declining health standards.It is becoming harder for governments to obfuscate the fact that under-funding of our public hospitals is causing people to suffer, some even to die unnecessarily. Barely a week goes by without further disturbing incidents. Recent events in Perth, Canberra and Sydney provide examples.A cancer patient at Canberra Hospital died after waiting six hours for eme…

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