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Essays & reportage Can cities and towns make us healthier? Melissa Sweet 3 August 2017 With state and federal governments overwhelmingly focused on big-ticket medical spending, can local initiatives fill the gaps? National affairs Everyday heroes Lesley Russell 28 July 2017 Surgery grips the imagination, but most of the vital healthcare work goes on elsewhere International Republicans versus voters as healthcare bill founders Lesley Russell 2 July 2017 Lacking popular support or the endorsement of even a single state, the push for the Republican healthcare bill seems detached from reality National affairs Health’s vacuum at the top Lesley Russell 6 June 2017 Despite the government’s resolve to defuse Labor’s Medicare attacks, the federal budget isn’t looking so generous under scrutiny

International Trumpcare, Ryancare, or neither of the above? Lesley Russell 23 March 2017 With new afterword | Surprise in Congress: healthcare reform is complicated and politically fraught National affairs “Housing first” takes second place Lesley Russell 21 March 2017 A promising federal government homelessness strategy dissipated for lack of funding and political will National affairs Time to slay a pharmaceutical zombie Stephen Duckett 7 March 2017 As other countries have shown, there are better ways to save half a billion each year in health spending National affairs Mental health care: two steps forward, but a risk of one step back Lesley Russell 1 March 2017 The federal government’s plan for “stepped care” needs fine-tuning

National affairs Home is where the health is Lesley Russell 5 August 2016 More consultation, more investment and a wider view of healthcare needs – these are the necessary elements of an innovative scheme that could transform patient care, writes… National affairs Reshaping Medicare Hal Swerissen & Stephen Duckett 8 July 2016 The election campaign showed that Medicare has wide support, write Hal Swerissen and Stephen Duckett. But that doesn’t mean the scheme should stand still Essays & reportage The right to be old Melanie Joosten 17 June 2016 Ageing needs to be treated as a state of living rather than failing, argues Melanie Joosten in this extract from her new book National affairs Chill winds for doctors, and their patients Stephen Duckett 20 May 2016 A flat economy has stopped the Medicare freeze from becoming a major headache for the Coalition, says Stephen Duckett. But continuing to hold down the rebate…