An open letter to the federal Minister for Health  from a general practitioner in outback Australia

Wearne, Susan M

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02692.x

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The global financial crisis teaches us that systems like Medicare may have hidden long-term costs if they are based on short-term gains

Dear Nic,
Forgive my informality, but I have noticed that Australians like to shorten things — this even applies to Medicare.

1 Alice Springs, NT.
2 Rural Clinical School, Flinders University, Alice Springs, NT.

Correspondence: susan.wearne@flinders.edu.au

Competing interests:

None identified.

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