Mark Butler: Policy froth and the Medicare promised land
During his first weeks, the minister offered reassurance that he was going to be about action.
This is the second in our two-part federal election series. Last week we looked at the pledges made by Opposition health spokeswoman Senator Anne Ruston.
When Mark Butler took over as health minister he had, like most of us, been witness to the way consultations on reforming Medicare — that stuff about making it fit for patients needing complex care — had ended up as Canberra landfill.
