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."