Health Working Papers

The Health Vote in the 2011 Budget was an estimated $127 million behind what is needed to stand still. While it listed services that will… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 4

The Health Vote in the 2010 Budget was barely adequate to keep up with rising costs and population growth and ageing, but not adequate to… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 3

The health system needs more money each year just to maintain its current standards and services. The population increases, the population ages, new treatments become… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 2

This analysis compares the 2015 Budget with the analysis the CTU carried out prior to the Budget, which found a conservatively estimated $629 million of… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 14

The health system needs more money each year just to maintain its current standards and services. This is to cover such things as population growth,… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 13

This analysis compares the 2014 Budget with the analysis the CTU carried out prior to the Budget, which found that $499 million was required to… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 12

In total, the operational expenses portion of the Health vote will need to rise by 3.5 percent or $499 million from $14,135 million to $14,633… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 11

The Report of the Ministerial Review Group, Meeting the Challenge (the “Horn Report”), claims that real health care costs will increase by almost 100% in… Read More »Working Paper on Health No 1

This spreadsheet updates the data used to assess the requirements for health spending before the 2017-18 Budget with actual budget data.

Part of the CTU Working Papers on Health, this paper asks whether Budget 2017 met the level of funding will be required to maintain health services?

Part of the CTU Working Papers on Health, this paper asks, prior to Budget 2017, what level of funding will be required to maintain health services?

This spreadsheet provides the data used to assess the requirements for health spending in the 2017-18 year.