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Effect of Health Agreement on Health Services

27 Apr 2010

Q5. From what you have heard, do you think that as a result of this agreement, health services in your state will get better or worse?

Total better 43%
Total worse 15%
Get a lot better 10%
Get a little better 34%
Get a little worse 6%
Get a lot worse 9%
Stay much the same 25%
Don’t know 17%

43% think that as a result of this agreement, health services in their state will get better – 15% think they will get worse and 25% think they will stay much the same. 65% of Labor voters think health services will get better and 6% worse. Liberal/National voters split 28% better/24% worse/40% stay the same.

There were no significant differences between the states in terms of whether health services will get better or worse.

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