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Radiotherapy: What Does The Recent Federal Budget Mean For Healthcare One of Australias preeminent health experts, Stephen Duckett, Health and Aged Care Program Director at the Grattan Institute, discusses healthcare spending in the recent Federal Budget. He breaks down the significance of the several billion dollar increase in health funding, and how it will be allocated across our struggling aged care systems, mental health care, and more.

Boost spending by $10b a year to help fix aged care: Grattan The Federal Government should boost funding by about $10 billion a year to help fix Australia’s broken aged care system, according to a new Grattan Institute report. The extra spending could be funded by some combination of a new Medicare-style levy on taxable income, changes to the pension assets test and/or the residential aged care means test, and/or reductions in excessively generous tax breaks on superannuation. Properly admini...