Cutting cancer costs is a worthy policy, but we need to try to prevent it too
- Written by Terry Slevin, Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
Removing the financial worries from Australians diagnosed with cancer is bound to be a popular move.
The Opposition’s A$2.3 billion cancer care plan – announced in Bill Shorten’s budget reply speech on Thursday night – aims to ensure cancer treatment costs for scans, specialists and drugs are bulk billed or subsidised under...
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