Prof. Jim Butler

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  Professor Jim Butler

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  Professor Jim Butler Director, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) The Australian National University

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  Jim Butler, director of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health at the Australian National University, is not convinced. Even in the United States, the great majority of members did not opt out of the publicly funded Medicare when offered incentives to do so, he says. "The question people need to confront is, to what extent do people want greater choice of health insurer? My guess would be that somewhat less than 45 per cent would choose to do that. Butler also cautions that managed competition has the potential to result in less consumer choice when it comes to access to services and providers, and this has also been raised in various journal articles critiquing the Dutch scheme.
  
  "Some of the gains you may get from efficiency from competition between providers may come from restrictions of choice, for example, funds saying you must use one of these hospitals," he says.

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  DR JIM BUTLER NATIONAL CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

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  Professor Jim Butler, Director of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) based at ANU, says that opening up private hospitals to more patients will have a double benefit: reducing queues for public hospitals, and making public and private hospitals more competitive.
  
  In his analysis, a Hospital Benefits Schedule funded by the Commonwealth and not the states would be created to enable patients to use their publicly funded health service benefit in private hospitals.
  
  "If a patient has to have a hip replacement they would be given the cost of that service being provided in a public hospital and put it towards the cost of the same operation in a private hospital," Professor Butler said."That might mean they then pay a bit more for the service, but the operation may be performed sooner."
  
  Most importantly, access to hospital services would improve, he said.
  
  "At the moment, only 45 per cent of the population has cover through private health insurance against private hospital charges.Under this system, 100 per cent would have insured access to them.It would shift some of the funding responsibility to the taxpayer, but that burden could be easily absorbed by increasing the Medicare levy, for example from 1.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent, and reducing grants to the states to reflect the transfer of financial responsibility for hospitals to the Commonwealth."
  
  Professor Butler said the Commonwealth would act in a funding capacity only.Ownership and management of public hospitals would still be the responsibility of the states, and the new funding arrangement could easily graft onto the existing Medicare system.
  
  A possible area of difficulty with the new scheme would be managing how doctors working in public hospitals would be paid.Currently specialists are largely salaried or sessional, but private hospital doctors operate under a fee-for-service model.Professor Butler said that moving to a fee-for-service payment model across both types of hospitals would result in the same economic incentives for doctors to work in either type of hospital, but patients in public hospitals would then face out-of-pocket expenses for medical fees in excess of the Medicare rebate.
  
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  Professor Jim Butler will be taking part in a public seminar at ANU tonight called 'Sustainable funding for Australia's future health care'.

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  Speaker: Jim Butler
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  SPEAKER: Jim Butler
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  Jim Butler is Professor of health economics at The Australian National University (ANU) and Director of the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH). Prior to taking up his current post in 2005, he was Deputy Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) at ANU.
  
  In 1997, he spent six months as Visiting Associate Professor in the Health Care Systems Department in The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Butler holds a PhD in economics from The University of Queensland, and has had a long-standing interest in health economics. He has authored and edited several books including the following titles: Federalism and Public Policy: Intergovernmental Grants and Health Care Financing, Hospital Cost Analysis and (with Dr Erich Kliewer) Hospital Morbidity Patterns and Costs of Immigrants in Australia. Professor Butler's research interests include health care financing and economic evaluation.
  
  His recent research on private health insurance in Australia has encompassed issues such as the price elasticity of demand for private health insurance, and the existence of a regulation-induced adverse selection death spiral in private health insurance since the introduction of Medicare. He has also worked as a consultant on health financing and health insurance in a number of Asia-Pacific countries for the World Bank and other agencies.

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  Dr Jim Butler

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  Jim Butler, Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH), The Australian National University
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  Jim Butler, Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH), The Australian National University

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  Jim Butler (ANU)

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  This study has being conducted by Jim Butler and Amanda Neil.
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  Francesca Baas Becking, Research Assistant, NCEPH (Aboriginal Community AIDS Project) Jim Butler, Fellow, NCEPH (economic analysis of the drug market) Jennifer Chadwick-Masters, Research Assistant, NCEPH (residency criteria) Glenda Humes, Research Assistant, NCEPH (Aboriginal Community AIDS Project) Timothy McGregor, Research Assistant, NCEPH (sexual abuse workshop) Michele Moloney, Research Assistant, NCEPH (Aboriginal Community AIDS Project) Amanda Neil, Research Assistant, NCEPH (economic analysis of the drug market) Ayse Sengoz, Research Assistant, NCEPH (drug markets, youth study) Margaret Shanahan, Research Assistant, NCEPH (sexual abuse workshop) Bev Sibthorpe, Visiting Fellow, NCEPH (youth study) Deborah Tunnicliff, Research Assistant, NCEPH (residency criteria, studies with heroin users)

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