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A brief history of 'Health reform' in Australia, 2007-09

In the federal election of the year 2007, Kevin Rudd, a leader of opposition party emphasizes on the health system reform. The reform was launched in 2007 with the intention of reducing blame shifting, cost, and improvement in the services. The mandate of responsibility of assuming full funding for public hospitals of Australia by the Commonwealth was proposed by Mr. Rudd for the coming elections. Press release launched the idea of “a Commonwealth takeover of hospital funding” that confirmed that local and regional communities would participate directly but the liability ...