The morons in the Rudd ALP Federal Cabinet have, for no good reason, increased the threshold on private cover from people earning $50,000 to people earning $100,000. In essence, the incentive to move to private health care, thus taking pressure off the public system has been removed. PriceWaterhouseCoopers have analysed the results and believe that it will mean an extra 1 million people will drop their private insurance and flood into the public system, putting incredible pressure on an already underfunded area.
With all of these extra 1 million people in the public health system, health services will decrease, doctors will provide lower quality health, hospital waiting lists will increase, etc.
The Australian Health Insurance Agency is calling it a “potentially catastrophic” blow for the health national system. Already, states are asking the federal government for over $1.8 billion to make up for this stupid policy shift. That’s $1.8 billion of taxpayers money which would have efficiently made it’s way through the private system, which is now being diverted to fund this abysmal decision. Rudd, Swan and Roxon are fools. Already doctor friends of mine (and their left leaning wives) have told me it is a disastrous decision. “Are they trying to deliberately destroy the health system?” they ask.
It makes you wonder what the hell the Rudd ALP Government were thinking – apart from trying to fight some bullshit class battle like stopping private health companies from earning money? Why discourage a system which outsources health funding to people and private companies and provides better health outcomes? Anything that reduces Government funding and administration is a good thing – but of course Rudd and the rest of the ALP wouldn’t have a clue. Scratch them and they’re still socialists without a clue.