X
Menu

“ Good health and well-being for all Australians ”

Find out more

Contact AHCRA

Stay up to date

Sign up for our newsletter

Want to get involved

Become a member

Welcome to the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance

The Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA) is a coalition of individuals and organisations working to improve health care in Australia. While some areas of the current health system perform well, overall it does not deliver optimum care in an equitable and efficient way. AHCRA believes that our health system needs fundamental reform in order to meet our future health care needs.
A fair go Health System AHCRA
AHCRA is calling for some major changes to our health system to make it fairer, more efficient and more consumer-focussed.

Health policy news

Health reform issue – 7 May 2019

Australian Greens health policy

Health reform issue – 7 May 2019

Equity – life expectancy

Health reform issue – 7 May 2019

Where Ross Gittins gets it right on health reform

Health reform issue – 29 April 2019

Federal Election 2019: Follow the lead of WA on climate and health

Health reform issue – 29 April 2019

Federal Election 2019: National Health Commission – making it work

Health reform issue – 29 April 2019

Federal Election 2019: ALP Cancer policy – good but is it fair?

Health reform issue – 29 April 2019

Federal Election 2019: A ‘health’ policy – not just a ‘health care’ policy

Health reform issue – 29 April 2019

Federal Election 2019: Dental care – welcome but not enough

Universal health care article – 8 March 2019

Universal health care makes ethical and economic sense

Health reform issue – 21 Nov 2018

One nation: are all Australian States and Territories equal?

Health reform issue – 21 Nov 2018

Nutrition condition

Health reform issue – 21 Nov 2018

Climate change call to action

Health reform issue – 21 Nov 2018

The elephant in the room

Health reform issue – 21 Nov 2018

Health workforce issues

Keep up to date with all our latest news and articles by following us on Paper.li

AHCRA News

07 February 2020

Executive Changes

It is with much regret that we are saying farewell to our Chair, Jennifer Doggett, after nearly four years of leading our organisation. Under her leadership we have made great strides in engaging social media as well as maintaining our presence in the mainstream media. She will be missed but we will continue.

Tim Woodruff will be Acting Chair and Spokesperson for the time being.

Thank you Jennifer!

17 May 2019

ACHRA Election scorecard

Government Policy on JobSeeker and JobKeeper Unhealthy and Economically Counterproductive

“The Federal Government’s plan to reduce JobSeeker and JobKeeper, its previous elimination of the temporary child care support measures, and its planned tax cuts will damage the lives of many and will have little if any, positive impact on the economy,” said Dr Tim Woodruff, Acting Chair of the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance.

Covid kills. It affects poor people much more than the wealthy. That’s what the figures show. Poverty kills. Even relative poverty leads to poorer people suffering and dying earlier than wealthier people, whether from Covid or any other cause. That’s what the figures show.

Newstart was 40% below the poverty line before Covid. As of September 24, 1.6 million JobSeeker Australians will have their income cut to 10% below the poverty line. Those people will suffer more and die younger than their wealthy fellow Australians. This is Federal Government policy.

It is immoral policy. It is unhealthy policy.

Every dollar these people on JobSeeker have will immediately be spent, thus regrowing the economy.

Contrast that with the contemplated Federal Government proposal to give  tax cuts of $2,000 to $4,000 to wealthy Australians. They all have quite adequate disposable incomes. Those tax cuts will be spent increasing their wealth in savings such as superannuation, property investment and the like. Such spending will have little or no impact on the struggling economy. Indeed it may just maintain or even exacerbate the lack of affordability of housing for those on lower incomes.

Cutting taxes for the wealthy at this time is counterproductive economic policy

But it is ideologically consistent with a belief that if one is lucky enough to have had the opportunity to be wealthy, whether through having the right genes, family upbringing , and/or connections, then one deserves to continue to be comfortable, come what may, and damn the rest.

Questions remain. Why are mother sand babies being left ot go hungry in our cities and towns.? Why is it being left to charities and volunteers to pick up the pieces? Does our Governments have anything to say other than to call the poor a drain on society.

Does Australia really  want public policy which is driven by ideology, despite it being unhealthy, immoral, and economically counterproductive? , asks Dr Woodruff. “Are we really all in this together?”

Dr Tim Woodruff

Acting Chair

0401042619

19th Oct 2019

Private health insurance reform needs a non-partisan solution

The Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA) today called on all political parties to work together to find solutions to the current private health insurance crisis and to develop a joint approach to the future funding of private health care in Australia.

1st Apr 2019

Equity the priority for the Federal Budget

The Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA) today called on the Federal Government to make health equity the first priority in the health portfolio in tomorrow’s Federal Budget.

AHCRA preBudget FINAL 1April2019

 

 

 

 

More here...

Follow us on Twitter

AHCRA Members



Find out more about AHCRA Members

Contact

Email: info@healthreform.org.au
  • General enquiries:
    • Tim Woodruff
    • Chair and Media Spokesperson
    • Phone: 0401 042 619
Australian Health Care Reform Alliance © 2021 - All Rights Reserved
The Australian Health Care Reform Alliance (AHCRA) is a coalition of peak health groups working towards a better health system for Australia’s future.