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

Abstract

List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Part I. Medicine and the State: 1900 to 1939: 1. 'A game of animal grab', medical practice, 1920-39 2. National hygiene and nationalization: the failure of a federal health policy, 1918-39 3. Doctors, the states and interwar medical politics 4. The defeat of national health insurance Part II. The Reconstruction of Medicine? Planning and Politics, 1940 to 1949: 5. The BMA wins the War 6. From 'Sales and service' to 'cash and carry': the planning of postwar reconstruction 7. Paying the doctor: the BMA caught between salaried medicine and fee-for-service 8. Relieving the patient, not the doctor: the Hospital Benefits Act 9. A war of attrition: the fate of the pharmaceutical benefits scheme 10. The limits of reform: the Chifley government and a national health service, 1945-9 Part III. The Public and the Private: 11. Private practice, publicly funded: the Page health service 12. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.