AMA Pre-Budget Submission 2024–25

Australia’s health system is one of the best in the world. In 2021, the highly regarded Commonwealth Fund rated Australia as having the third best health system when ranked among eleven similar high-income countries. In its report, Australia was placed number one on both healthcare outcomes and equity.

There are however issues in our health system that require genuine reform, including long waits for public hospital treatment, general practitioners struggling to meet growing demand, a private health system that is in need of reform, and a lack of investment in preventive health. In 2021, the AMA released its Vision for Australia’s Health, which proposed sensible and targeted reforms that would help address these issues in our health system. Our reform ideas focus on five pillars: general practice, public hospitals, private health, a health system for all, and a health system for the future. The AMA Pre-Budget Submission 2024–25 outlines detailed, costed, targeted, and implementable initiatives across these five pillars that represent an investment in the health of Australians.

Note: Individual chapters of the AMA Pre-Budget Submission 2024–25 will be published below ahead of the 2024 federal budget.