DoctorsReformSociety

@drsreform

Doctors and medical students promoting measures to improve health for all, in a socially just and equitable way, since 1973.

Australia
drs.org.au
Joined October 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    13 Oct 2017

    "PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE CHANGES SHORING UP AN UNFAIR TWO TIERED HEALTH SYSTEM" The latest announcement by the...

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  2. Mar 26

    Climate change is a huge health issue. If you have asthma, here's a simple change you might be able to make to your medicines to trim your carbon footprint.

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    Mar 22

    Spending per year Offshore detention: $1.2bn Corporate tax cut: $6.5bn Health Insurance rebate: $11bn : $730m (with an m)

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    Mar 18

    Last chance today to submit to the WA government inquiry into fracking. We oppose fracking on health and climate grounds. Have submitted. You can too here: or (for some help crafting a submission) here:

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    Mar 8

    It’s simply not fair that many West Australians wait over a year for an appointment, while others can use taxpayer-subsidised private health insurance to jump the queue to care. We need a more equitable system.

    West Australians are waiting a year to see public hospital specialists.
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  7. Mar 7

    Good article though — great insight into the reality of barriers to access to care even for those who thought they were covered.

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  8. Mar 7

    Re private health insurance, Ranjana Srivastava says: “a solution seems to be out of the reach of even the best minds.” Au contraire: many minds agree that reducing PHI rebates & redirecting savings to the public system would help. Just difficult politics.

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    Mar 6

    Folks, this time tomorrow we'll be delivering our open letter on coal emissions to the . Come along and support us in calling for cleaner, healthier air in !

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  10. Retweeted
    Feb 27

    Good to see some acknowledgment of social determinants of health in the WA Sustainable Health Review interim report. Prevention needs to go well beyond individual actions. As the WHO says, let's put "health in all policies".

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    Feb 13
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    Remember 85% of doctors fees are paid by Until we get real market competition by abolishing PHI rebates Private health will put profits before patients

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  12. Retweeted
    Feb 18

    “Individuals as more than simply patients”

    When I enter the healthcare system or am part of a patient based project, I am automatically stripped of all of my identifiers except “patient.” I often feel faceless, generic, and simply representative of a “disease class” by
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    Feb 24

    An independent Medicare Authority (as suggested by RACGP President )? Medicare Gold (remember that)? Option B? Come and discuss the most promising ideas for health reform at 's Summit on 27 March More info:

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    Feb 24
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    It is a sad and sorry day when any doctor has to explain to any politician that better primary care and preventative medicine is the best investment that Australia can make in health right now. And I'm speaking as a hospital doctor.

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    Feb 24

    Step 3: Political parties are to commit genuinely to funding prevention of disease in the community rather than wasting funds on treating same disease in hospitals. Commit to primary care & general practice:

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    Feb 24

    Health Ministers are obsessed with spending $$$ on hospitals and political thought bubbles. Patients who need to see their GP have just been ignored and neglected. We all have been held hostage by inadequate funding for too long. The consequences are obvious.

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  17. Feb 24

    Survey on medics costs via

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  18. Feb 15

    More Australians dispose of health insurance because of rising premiums

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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 13

    One healthcare problem we could fix: turn private health insurance from unaffordable to unnecessary

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  20. Feb 13

    Coal is a health issue (via air pollution & climate change), which is why we’ve signed this letter to the Victorian EPA. You can too!

    in is under review. HAVE YOUR SAY!
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  21. Feb 13

    Should “the government ... do more to keep private health insurance affordable"? This idea is delusional, says . It’s all about profit.

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