Health Minister Mark Butler’s speech to the AFR Healthcare Summit made that unmistakably clear. In effect, he has fired the starter gun, against a backdrop of non-disclosure agreements already being deployed across the industry.
A sensible approach to a process already underway must focus on making the system better, not just cheaper
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