Ranking our Worst Prime Ministers, page-107

That's possible but he didn't take defeat of his ambitious reforms well.
I believe he had a personal breakdown in response to failure to get his agenda through.

Anyway he promised to fix inefficiencies in the health system but failed to gain support from the States.
They weren't prepared to give up a share of GST distributions in return for more Federal funding of health.
The election promise of Co-operative Federalism failed.
Thinking about it perhaps we need to remove a level of bureaucracy in the health system rather than add a new one.