The AMA 2007-08 Federal Health Budget analysis was prepared by Access Economics and puts Budget health spending into context with total Budget outlays and previous Health Budgets. It also examines any likely longer-term impacts. Key observations of the Access Economics reports include: health spending is about constant with a share of total outlays; more than half the new measures are remedial in character and cannot be sold as 'new' money; high marks for realigning health spending priorities to better meet the needs of an ageing population suffering more chronic disease; high marks for a number of new spending initiatives that focus on areas with real opportunities to improve health outcomes.