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Dominic Giannini

Medicare, hospital funding reform on cabinet agenda

Mr Albanese says getting people out of emergency wards is key to improving the health system. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

A plan to overhaul the healthcare system will go before the nation's leaders this week with states and territories pushing for the Commonwealth to pick up more of the bill.

The Australian Medical Association says only three of 201 public hospitals it analysed delivered care in the recommended time-frames.

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