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> and this will-inevitably- lead to reductions in eligibility and payments, including what treatments are avialable from the health system. I was in Oz a coupl
by switch007 12y ago
> and this will-inevitably- lead to reductions in eligibility and payments, including what treatments are avialable from the health system.
I was in Oz a couple of weeks ago and the government announced they're "reviewing" Medicare. The way they kept stressing that they're working with doctors and it's not a cost-cutting exercise made it painfully obvious they're going to do cost-cutting.
- brc 12y agoVarious governments of various political flavours have tried stuffing the genie back into the bottle but the public doesn't want any part of it, fanned on by whoever is the political opposite at the time. Introducing a co-payment for a doctors visit (last proposal was $5, I think) was considered to be the end of the world. Of course everyone understands that if you give something away for free, you have to produce more of it, and nobody wants taxes to go up any further, so the can gets kicked down the road. It has to happen sooner or later. You can avoid most things except for demographics.