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What should happen to the private health insurance rebate this election? A $7 billion question

The private health insurance rebate costs Australian taxpayers nearly A$7 billion per year, and has cost over $100 billion since its introduction.

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Overhaul on offshore gas mega-projects could reap almost $90bn in decade

Greens release costings to support 10% levy as part of policy package to increase tax on big companies and super-rich

The Guardian - AU

66% Of Medicare Recipients Support Medical Marijuana Coverage: How Many Are Using Pot, And What For?

The House of Representatives approved the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act April 1, sending it to the Senate, a move that si

Benzinga

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Washington state retools first-in-the-nation long-term care benefit

Patricia Keys, 71 and a stroke survivor, needs help with many everyday activities, such as dressing and bathing. Her daughter Christina, who lives near her mom in Vancouver, Washington, cares for her in the evenings and pays about $3,000 a month for help from other caregivers.

Tribune News Service

Hospitals' massive cancer drug markups

Negotiated prices with insurers are often double what the hospital paid to acquire the drug, according to a new study.

Axios

Medicare, aged pensions and energy bills: Which scare campaigns should you be looking out for in this election?

From a carbon tax to Medicare, energy bills and pensioner changes — the Coalition and Labor are both relying heavily on scare campaigns ahead of next month's poll.

ABC News

Why Democrats, Republicans and GOP Senator Rick Scott are all fighting over his tax proposal

Republican plan calls for millions more to pay income taxes

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View from The Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll

Labor has clung to its 53-47% two-party lead in the latest Newspoll, but Anthony Albanese’s ratings have taken a knock after his error-prone first week of the campaign.

The Conversation

Anthony Albanese shifts campaign focus to perceived failings of Morrison government

Labor seeks to pressure Coalition over Medicare, as aspiring Liberal heath minister says party ‘absolutely guarantee Medicare in law’

The Guardian - AU

Australia PM vows no cuts to universal healthcare if re-elected

Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied on Monday that his government would make cuts to Australia's universal healthcare scheme if he is re-elected next month, after the opposition Labor Party raised doubts over its future.

Reuters

Labor switches to attack as stocks dive

Anthony Albanese has visited Brisbane to take aim at the prime minister's record, as Scott Morrison talks up defence jobs in Western Australia.

AAP

Anne Ruston defends past comments that Medicare ‘is not sustainable’ after PM names her as health minister if re-elected

Minister says Coalition is ‘not cutting Medicare’ as Labor accuses her of wanting ‘to take the universal out of universal healthcare’

The Guardian - AU

Commentary: Every day is Tax Day

The deadline for filing federal income taxes is later than usual this year. Tax Day has been pushed back to April 18 to avoid coinciding with the District of Columbia’s Emancipation Day holiday.

Tribune News Service

Labor pledges to fund Maitland Hospital MRI licence

Health workers are calling out to both sides of politics for solutions to Australia's staffing shortages.

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The Conversation

The FDA approved a new drug to treat Alzheimer's, but Medicare won't always pay for it – a doctor explains what researchers know about Biogen's Aduhelm

Medicare finalized its decision to restrict its coverage of Aduhelm, Biogen’s new Alzheimer’s disease drug, on April 8, 2022.

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Adam Bandt Says Trans Rights Are ‘Non-Negotiable’ & Wants Medicare To Cover Gender Surgery

Greens leader Adam Bandt has called for Medicare to cover gender affirmation surgeries and said trans issues are "non-negotiable".

The Conversation

Hope? Contempt? Reciprocity? How each political party's election ads reveal their key messages

The federal election campaign is underway and political advertising has really started to ramp up. But who is the target audience for each party’s ad, what are their key messages and how effective will they be?

The Conversation

The Greens want Medicare to cover a trip to the dentist. It's a grand vision but short on details

Universal and affordable access to dental care is the perennial health-care issue everyone cares about but no major political party seems willing to address in any substantive way.

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Denunciantes dicen que las aseguradoras de salud estafan a Medicare para ganar miles de millones

Teresa Ross llevaba meses planteando objeciones en el trabajo cuando sus jefes trajeron a un psicólogo con la esperanza de hacerle cuestionar su propia cordura.

ABC News

Medicare scraps historical medical record requests due to staffing pressures, leaving abuse survivors to wait longer

Vulnerable Australians who have already been left waiting months to access their medical records to receive compensation will face further delays after Services Australia announces plans to scrap backlogged requests.

Newcastle Herald

Barnaby announces $55m for Newcastle Airport upgrade

The Coalition also committed to spend $56 million on Mandalong Road at Morisset.

Tribune News Service

Whistleblowers say health insurers are scamming Medicare to make billions

Teresa Ross had been raising objections at work for months when her bosses brought in a psychologist hoping to make her question her own sanity.

The Guardian - AU

I can’t eat childcare or lower taxes. Australians in poverty have been thrown to the wolves by both parties

No one cares about us until the economy needs to be stimulated. We are used to do it then abandoned again

The Guardian - AU

Labor to commit $135m to trial 50 urgent care clinics intended to ease pressure on hospitals

Announcement comes alongside policies to strengthen Medicare and ‘make it easier to see a doctor’ as ambulance wait times blow out

The Guardian - AU

Billionaire tax to fund Greens’ $7.5bn plan for Medicare to cover dental

Other policies announced include tackling housing affordability, banning new coal and gas mines and abolishing student debt, Adam Bandt says

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