spartacus
Well-known member
Yep, we should pretend money grows on trees.
A Grattan Institute report (April 2013) predicted that healthexpenditure would be the biggest contributor to a blowout in state and *federalbudget deficits by 2023 due primarily to an ageing population (Daley 2013).
John Deeble, the health economist who advised both the Whitlam and Hawke governments on universal healthcare (Medibank and Medicare), also indicated that the states were shouldering too much of the burden of health funding, and private health insurance could help to solve the problem through subsidies to aid private health as long as it made more “comprehensive and stay *comprehensive”. Deeble declared “I don’t see how you are going to solve the problem in an equitable way unless you make some very nastydecisions” (Heath 2013).
In the meantime, Labor rather than offering its own ideas about how to address costs and encourage equity, just relies on Abbott breaking promises.
A Grattan Institute report (April 2013) predicted that healthexpenditure would be the biggest contributor to a blowout in state and *federalbudget deficits by 2023 due primarily to an ageing population (Daley 2013).
John Deeble, the health economist who advised both the Whitlam and Hawke governments on universal healthcare (Medibank and Medicare), also indicated that the states were shouldering too much of the burden of health funding, and private health insurance could help to solve the problem through subsidies to aid private health as long as it made more “comprehensive and stay *comprehensive”. Deeble declared “I don’t see how you are going to solve the problem in an equitable way unless you make some very nastydecisions” (Heath 2013).
In the meantime, Labor rather than offering its own ideas about how to address costs and encourage equity, just relies on Abbott breaking promises.
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