Hazards in the Corporatisation of Health Care

Introduction For many years, Australian Federal goverments have been frustrated at restrictions to trading the care of sick Australians in the international market. Often, the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) will initially put out a welcoming mat for multinationals only to then find that the companies’ overseas misdemeanours are publicised. The plans of these companies to dominate the Australian health care system are thus thwarted. Recent trade agreements will, however, make the large corporations even harder to resist.