Australia has a universal, publicly funded health insurance scheme known as Medicare, which means that every Australian, alongside a small number of eligible international visitors, can access ...

Between $1.5 billion to $10 billion of public money is being lost in Medicare rorts every year because of weak oversight and ...

Why Medicare is at a 'tipping point' — and what could be done to save it The Australian Medical Association is calling for an overhaul of the healthcare system, describing it as "out of date ...

Medicare, and its predecessor Medibank, introduced in 1975, have never provided free, universal health care. Many essential services, such as dental care, are not covered.

Select spokesperson Sophie Ryan has encouraged Aussies to check their hospital cover now, if they want to avoid an extra tax. (Source: iSelect/Getty) Australians are being urged ...

When one of my friends told me on ACT budget night that ACT ratepayers would be paying a $250 health levy, I told her not to ...

Government repeatedly ignored foreigner’s Medicare fraud, on top of the abuse of his wife. A man waved into Australia by bumbling immigration officials also escaped an investigation into his ...

Reports from Australian daily newspapers The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald show the Greens party previously advocated for funding gender-affirming surgery under Medicare in its 2022 election ...

Labor established Medicare, Australia’s universal healthcare system, in 1984 and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to invest a $8.5bn in the program to deliver an estimated 18 million ...

Australia is set to unveil six Medicare Urgent Care Clinics ( UCCs) in the remote regions of the Northern Territory (NT). These facilities are part of the extra 29 clinics announced and funded ...