Notes

Amendments

25 Sep 2019 - An error was made in the Summary of the report (page iv). Under the heading ‘Increasing per person funding by private health insurers’, the number of people holding private health insurance has increased (not decreased) by almost 2 million since 2007–08.

8 Oct 2019 - An additional table, Table A12: Australian Government Specific Purpose Payments to state and territories, public hospitals, current prices, 2007–08 to 2017–18, has been included in the data tables.

12 Nov 2019 - On page 49 under the heading ‘Dental services’ the second sentence in the second paragraph was changed from ‘However, out-of-pocket expenses where people attend the dentist with no private health cover are not included’ to ‘Out-of-pocket expenses where people attend the dentist with no private health cover is based on a modelled estimate’.

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