Unfortunately, our current health financing system incentivizes hospitals and physicians to do as many transplants as possible, even when it may not get the best outcomes for patients.

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It is also entertaining various schemes to raise money for financing its health care system, such as curbing the tax deductibility of outlays that businesses make for their employees' health care.

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And yes, this is a very different question from whether there should be a state run financing system for health care.

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She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.

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The pending Patient Access to Responsible Care Act aims to impose a complicated regulatory system on health care financing.

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In April it raised tobacco excise by 25% to help pay for its grand plan for the federal government to take over most of the financing of Australia's health system from the states.

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Its aim was to control costs by injecting more competition into the system, and to overhaul financing by introducing a central health fund.

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