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From your experience Ron , what can or should be done to arrest this almost emergency situation from becoming worse?

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

From your experience Ron , what can or should be done to arrest this almost emergency situation from becoming worse?

So many things need to be done, changes need to be made, and it’s going to cost a lot of money, and take a lot of will by all governments - Federal and State - to make the changes.
And it’s going to take a long time. Years.
There will be Enquiries and Commissions and Reports.
We’ve seen in the media this last week that Medicare is in all sorts of strife. It needs significant change, but for decades there has been little appetite on the part of politicians of any persuasion to enact change because of the “sacred cow” that Medicare has become to Australians. Sadly the poor old cow has been milked for too long by governments, some unscrupulous providers, and even unprincipled patients, and has no more milk to give.
The cost of improving the system will be enormous.
How would Aussies feel about increasing the Medicare levy from the current 2% to 10 or 15% on top of their taxable income, which might come close to the true cost of the health system. Ouch.

Change to our health system won’t be easy, and it won’t be soon. Definitely won’t be cheap.

And I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Originally Posted by RHS58

Don’t blame them nowadays…
Was considered a “rite of passage” back then. Supposedly made you a better doc. Yeah, right.
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Yeah right!!! 100% agree
Just like in New Zealand when you trained, do 80 to maybe 120 hours in the hospital, dog tired, how many "mistakes" were made? quite a few, Push back and the older Doctors would say " we did it, did us no harm" so you need to do it also....
For so called highly educated people a lot of the senior doctors had no common sense or understanding of the human condition

Fatigue management policy at Qld Health not too many years ago was “drink more coffee”…
You would have been desperate to drink their Hospital Blend.

Don't quote me, but I think I read the 2% Medicare levy covers about half the cost of Medicare. I'd be happy to see it double, on the basis the money was going to public health, a worthy cause.

Originally Posted by RHS58

So many things need to be done, changes need to be made, and it’s going to cost a lot of money, and take a lot of will by all governments - Federal and State - to make the changes.
And it’s going to take a long time. Years.
There will be Enquiries and Commissions and Reports.
We’ve seen in the media this last week that Medicare is in all sorts of strife. It needs significant change, but for decades there has been little appetite on the part of politicians of any persuasion to enact change because of the “sacred cow” that Medicare has become to Australians. Sadly the poor old cow has been milked for too long by governments, some unscrupulous providers, and even unprincipled patients, and has no more milk to give.
The cost of improving the system will be enormous.
How would Aussies feel about increasing the Medicare levy from the current 2% to 10 or 15% on top of their taxable income, which might come close to the true cost of the health system. Ouch.

Change to our health system won’t be easy, and it won’t be soon. Definitely won’t be cheap.

And I think it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

somethings way out of wack here.....

our "new" government , after all its pre election bull**** about the state of the planet , just gave a massive injection to the very industries which are affecting our ongoing health , which is why we have a medicare system in place.

why couldn"t 10% of the grant go to help straighten out the problems in our medical system instead of contributing to the profits of the companies causing the problems in the first place.

I know this is a bit political , but if it gets put into CA then most wont see it .....