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Growing Health Divide Blamed For 7000 Deaths A Year

Monday March 7, 2005
About 7000 disadvantaged Australians a year die prematurely because of the growing inequities in health care, a medical specialists' organisation says.

Health At Too High A Premium

Friday March 4, 2005
The increase in health insurance premiums is but the latest warning, if warnings were needed, of health care costs that are out of control. The pending 8 per cent average rise in premiums follows other equally steep increases in recent years. Worse, those increases are set to continue.