Dal Ouba

Medicare Nightmare Dal Ouba

For decades, public discourse on the Australian health system has been
reduced to focusing on limited issues such as e-health or budget cuts
while failing to capture the greatest challenge facing our national
healthcare system. That is, inefficient access to crucial information
that empowers patients and their carers to make more effective health
decisions and maximise patient outcomes, leading to the dilemma and
tragedy of 'the Medicare Nightmare.' This nightmare is not just a
personal nightmare but a national one as well, considering poor medical
information flow in our healthcare system and society results in
increasing medical errors, escalating medical costs and an overburdened
health system, impacting on the sustainability of our valued Medicare
scheme. Complicated access to essential medical information is also
linked to the oppression of women, disempowerment of health consumers and
the general failure of our education system at all levels to empower
individuals to make more informed decisions on the most important asset
they will ever possess- their health.
Incorporating case study analysis, this book tackles how such poor
information flow occurs, allowing all key stakeholders in the healthcare
system to take more responsibility for not just their personal health and
wealth but that of their nation too. It is only through creating more
public awareness in our society on the great Medicare Nightmare that we
can increase our chances of alleviating the personal suffering and loss
incurred by its unfortunate victims and reveal the hidden impact and costs
these nightmares collectively have had on our society.
Written by a Science/Academic Literacy teacher with an educational
background in Medical Science, Business and Education, this book is a
must-read for anyone who has any contact with the Australian health
system. An established curricular justice author, Dal Ouba also has
extensive experience in developing quality educational materials, both in
the secondary and tertiary education sectors and has offered this unique
resource that promises to change public discourse on our health system
forever.