Former Chairman of the Federal AMA and Deputy President of the NSW Medical Board, Dr Peter Arnold, writes:
Although John Deeble and I were, literally, on opposite sides of the table when Bill Hayden was planning Medibank (Mark I), our views have, over the decades, gradually moved towards one another.
We are agreed, in private conversation, for example, that a continuing fault of Medibank I and its successors has been the absence of a ‘brake pedal’ to dampen the accelerated use (and abuse) of the almost free service.
I have done my bit, on behalf of the AMA, in trying to reduce ‘overservicing’, now known by the more accurate term which I suggested – ‘inappropriate practice’. Read More…
