Analysis of the April 2019 Budget papers by the Centre for the Health Economy shows that the federal government’s per capita spending on healthcare will rise by just 1.5% in 2019-20. This compares with growth of 6.7% in 2016-17. Per capita spending will grow by just 0.4% between 2019-20 and 2022-23 when population growth is taken into account. From The AFR:
Annual growth in health spending has been falling since 2016-17, when it was 6.7 per cent, and will only increase by 1.5 per cent in 2019-20.
