Michael Smith

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Apr 10, 2025 – 1.48pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Healthscope, the nation’s second-largest private hospital operator, said it would be willing to hand the troubled Northern Beaches Hospital back to the NSW government.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Apr 9, 2025 – 11.01am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? US president Donald Trump says he is preparing to announce a “major” tariff on pharmaceuticals in an expansion of his damaging trade war that would hit $1.6 billion in annual Australian exports.

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Updated Apr 7, 2025 – 2.40pm, first published at 10.20am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Health Minister Mark Butler has put private health insurers on notice that they will be forced to tip in up to $1 billion more every year to help struggling private hospitals remain open if Labor wins the federal election.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Apr 6, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Tensions are building between Healthscope and its landlord HMC Capital’s David Di Pilla, as the serial dealmaker seeks to position himself as the frontrunner in a possible bidding war for the country’s second-largest private hospital operator.

2 weeks ago | afr.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Apr 6, 2025 – 5.26pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Weight-loss drug companies claim new research shows that Labor and the Coalition are under growing pressure to consider listing weight-loss drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to tackle the nation’s growing obesity crisis and improve workplace productivity.