The price of health care for Medicare-ineligible asylum seekers in the community

• 1 Injury Prevention and Trauma Care, The George Institute for International Health, PO Box M201, Camperdown, NSW 2050
• 2 School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW. kkardATdoh.health.nsw.gov.au

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