The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960,9780521523226

The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics 1910–1960

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ISBN13: 9780521523226
ISBN10: 0521523222
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-06-30
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book provides background to the current debate on health policy by studying the political conflict over it in Australia from 1910 to 1960. It looks at both state and national levels to identify the main structures and forces that shaped the system of publicly-subsidized private practice, which is now most obvious in the fee-for-service scheme.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiv
Abbreviations xvi
Part I Medicine and the State: 1900 to 1939 1(112)
`A Game of Animal Grab', Medical Practice, 1920-1939
3(28)
General practitioners and the medical market
4(3)
`The crux of present medical practice': the friendly societies
7(8)
General practitioners, specialists and the `closed' hospital
15(9)
The dissolution of charity: outpatients and insurance
24(6)
Appendix
30(1)
National Hygiene and Nationalization: the Failure of a Federal Health Policy, 1918-1939
31(26)
Progressives, liberals and national hygiene
32(4)
The Commonwealth Department of Health and national health policy
36(7)
National hygiene or social welfare?
43(5)
The National Health and Medical Research Council and the new social medicine
48(9)
Doctors, the States and Interwar Medical Politics
57(30)
The states and medical practice
58(2)
The hospital question
60(4)
Tasmania: the BMA defeated
64(4)
Queensland and nationalization: the first phase
68(5)
Cilento and the Queensland model
73(14)
The Defeat of National Health Insurance
87(26)
Bacon and eggs for breakfast: the Kinnear scheme
90(8)
The campaign against NHI
98(7)
Employers, trade unionists and the death of national insurance
105(4)
The rural revolt
109(4)
Part II The Reconstruction of Medicine? Planning and Politics, 1940 to 1949 113(138)
The BMA Wins the War
115(15)
The politics of medical mobilization: the Central Medical Co-ordination Committee
116(4)
War and the BMA
120(6)
The BMA and the control of planning: the Emergency Medical Service
126(4)
From `Sales and Service' to `Cash and Carry': the Planning of Postwar Reconstruction
130(36)
Wartime planning: the NHMRC from Menzies to Curtin
131(13)
Better than Beveridge?: the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Social Security
144(10)
The abandonment of salaried medicine
154(8)
Towards a national health service?
162(4)
Paying the Doctor: the BMA Caught Between Salaried Medicine and Fee-for-Service
166(30)
The Federal Council and professional unity
169(4)
The Bell--Simmons report
173(3)
The BMA and a salaried service
176(6)
The BMA and the NHMRC scheme
182(3)
The ascendancy of fee-for-service
185(10)
Appendix
195(1)
Relieving the Patient, Not the Doctor: Not the Doctor: the Hospital Benefits Act
196(13)
Honoraries and equity: the ALP and hospital reform
197(3)
The Hospital Benefits Act and the medical profession
200(3)
The states and the Hospital Benefits Act
203(6)
A War of Attrition: the Fate of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
209(24)
Pharmacists and friendly societies
211(3)
The BMA and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act
214(6)
Fighting the socialist tiger
220(13)
The Limits of Reform: the Chifley Government and a National Health Service, 1945--1949
233(18)
The end of reconstruction
234(7)
Medical benefits and the BMA
241(5)
`Free and complete?': the fate of the national health service
246(5)
Part III The Public and the Private 251(38)
Private Practice, Publicly Funded: the Page Health Scheme
253(27)
The planning of the Page scheme
255(1)
Pharmaceutical benefits
256(4)
Towards residualism?: the Pensioners' Medical Service and cost control
260(4)
Medical benefits
264(7)
The BMA counter-attack and the end of contract practice
271(2)
Towards fee-for-service
273(3)
Hospital benefits
276(4)
Conclusion
280(9)
Notes 289(45)
Bibliography 334(15)
Index 349

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