In response to their call for submissions on its Draft Principles for Australia's Health System and on its Terms of Reference, the Centre for Policy Development offered the NHHRC comments based on our own research and publications in the area of health policy reform.

Jennifer Doggett revisits the arguments for investing in primary care and looks at what will be involved in implementing Labor's election policy on 'GP Super Clinics'.

Are taxpayers getting value for money out of Private Health Insurance susbsidies? Ian McAuley looks at the latest OECD data to determine what works in health care financing.

Tim Woodruff of the Doctors Reform Society argues that the fee for service contribution to the inappropriate use of health services has not been considered adequately and that the comparitive inefficiencies of the private sector vs the public sector are ignored.

Don Hindle likes the proposal for a single health insurance scheme but says that user payments are ‘a dumb idea that won't die’.

The second response to A Health Policy for Australia by David More highlights the promise and the possibilities of health information technology.

In the first of a series of responses to A Health Policy for Australia: reclaiming universal health care, Gavin Mooney argues for more emphasis on inequity, transparency, management, community participation in setting principles, Aboriginal health, and the problems in teaching hospitals.

John Menadue explains why A Health Policy for Australia criticises the private insurance industry.