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US extremism shows Australia’s health system gets the balance right

The critical question is how best to maintain the sustainability and affordability of private healthcare amid the stoush between health funds and hospital operators.

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The cowardly murder on the streets of Manhattan of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson isn’t just another story about the US gun violence epidemic. More alarming has been the reaction.

The online adulation of the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, extended to suggestions that the cold-blooded execution of a business executive was somehow justified by the shortcomings of the American healthcare system.

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