Richard Scotton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Scotton

Australian economist

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1930

Place of Birth: Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 01-Oct-2019

Profession: economist, health economist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Richard Scotton

  • Richard "Dick" Bailey Scotton AO (19 December 1930 – 1 October 2019) was an Australian health economist, best known as one of the original key policy advisers who designed the Australian Medibank program -- Australia's first and current system of publicly funded universal health care, now known as Medicare. Scotton was educated at the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Economics.
  • In June 2000 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "service to social reform as a leading health economist and policy analyst, particularly through the development of the Medibank scheme."

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