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Introducing competition to the health sector should be treated with caution

  • Written by Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageWe can't say whether introducing competition to the health sector would work in the same way as other markets. from www.shutterstock.com.au

The Productivity Commission’s study report on introducing competition into human services was quickly labelled as proposing privatisation of hospital, end-of-life and dental services.

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