02-07-2025
- Health
- AU Financial Review
Greg Hunt says states should pay private hospitals for public beds
Former federal health minister Greg Hunt says state governments should pay private hospitals to shorten long waiting lists for medical procedures in public wards and help keep a struggling industry afloat.
Hunt is now a senior adviser at Alvarez & Marsal and co-author of a paper that assesses how to make the private health sector – and its 600 hospitals – viable. One of his key recommendations is to resurrect the integration of private and public hospitals he oversaw during the COVID-19 pandemic.
