Making Medicare: The Politics of Universal Health Care in Australia

by Anne-Marie Boxall, James Gillespie

Since the 1980s, Australians have had a system of universal health care that is often taken for granted. But the road there wasn’t easy. Making Medicare is a comprehensive account of Australia’s long, tortuous, and unconventional path toward universal health care—as it was established, abolished, and introduced again—and of the reforms that brought it into being. With its detailed investigation of the policy debates that have determined the shape of health care in Australia, this book is the most thorough survey of Medicare’s history published to date. But it is not just about the past. The authors offer a timely overview of further reforms needed to address the challenges facing our health care new technologies, the aging population, and the rising tide of chronic disease.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Kate]

Interesting to learn about the evolution of medicare from medibank and all the back-and-forth it took to get to where Australia is today (or 2012). I found it was sometimes difficult to concentrate while reading this.