The Australian Health Policy Institute (AHPI) has introduced a series of policy briefing papers on contemporary Australian health policy issues.
As a component of our aim to offer high-level advice on critical issues in Australian health policy, AHPI has instituted the development of a series of policy briefing papers. The papers will be produced monthly and bring together impartial, fully sourced data on the issues. This will meet a need for easily accessible comprehensive background information on complex policy issues which will be useful for policy makers, researchers, academics, students and journalists.
The first of these papers is entitled: Medicare and Assisted Reproductive Technologies.
This policy briefing paper provides a background to policy debates in Australia concerning the public funding of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF) through Medicare. The briefing paper will contextualise this issue as a policy problem by examining recent events which have brought the funding of ART to public attention. It will then briefly examine the public funding of ART in other OECD nations and review concerns raised in relation to the limiting of public funding of ART in Australia.
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May-06 Medicare & Assisted Reproductive Technologies - new policy briefing paper from AHPI
