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Title: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by imcrookonit on Dec 30th, 2013 at 5:52am
GP fee would 'clog up' hospitals: Labor
Date December 29, 2013 Labor says a $5 fee for bulk-billed GP visits would put extra pressure on the public health system by clogging up hospital emergency departments, labelling the idea a "tax on taking your sick child to the doctor". :( The federal government has refused to "speculate" about a proposal to make patients pay the fee after a national Commission of Audit received a proposal for a co-payment scheme for GP consultations. But doctor groups have criticised such a move, claiming it would destroy Medicare and limit access to GPs for some community groups. Speaking on Sunday, acting opposition leader Penny Wong said a "real problem" with the approach was that it risked "clogging up our emergency departments in our public hospital system". :( "What we don't need is a new tax on taking your family to the doctor and what we don't need is more pressure on our public hospital system," senator Wong said in Adelaide. She said the idea represented "another broken promise from this Prime Minister". >:( "He (Tony Abbott) said no new taxes and now today we've got a tax on sick children going to the doctor." News Corp Australia reports co-payments would see patients pay a fee for bulk-billed GP consultations, with pensioners and concession card holders exempt from the fee. Families would also be granted up to 12 bulk-billed visits annually. Federal Health Minister Peter Dutton said he would not comment on "speculation around what the Commission of Audit may or may not recommend". "The commission's work is still being compiled and will be provided to the government in 2014," he said in a statement. "The government will be able to consider any recommendations and respond after that time." Mr Dutton said the government had committed to making sure the health system was sustainable and accessible in the future. Acting Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale said on Sunday it was a step towards a two-tiered US-style health system and away from universal healthcare. Dr Con Costa, of the Doctors' Reform Society, said a GP fee would make emergency departments busier. :( "Introducing a $5 co-payment is false cost-savings," he said in a statement. Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Dr Steve Hambleton said the majority of visits to the GP were very "reasonable and helpful" with only a minority causing doctors to ask why they came. A co-payment scheme was introduced under the Hawke government in the 1990s but was scrapped. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/gp-fee-would-clog-up-hospitals-labor-20131229-301o0.html#ixzz2otXkvhhM |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by imcrookonit on Dec 30th, 2013 at 5:56am
Well said Penny Wong. Yes you must try and put a stop to this new tax. :(
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:26am
What we didn't need, Penny, was an incompetent Treasurer spending our money like a drunken sailor and borrowing as if he had an unlimited credit limit. What we didn't need, Penny, was an incompetent & sexist PM introducing a carbon tax without a mandate and scaring off investment in this country and killing off the auto industry. What we didn't need, Penny, was a PM to play populist politics that would lead to more than 1,000 people dying at sea and the cost of securing our northern borders blowing out to nearly $2bn per year. What we didn't need, Penny, was six years of Labor waste, incompetence, in-fighting and colossal debt. If the former ALP government had been even half-competent, this fee would likely not even be being considered.
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Greens_Win on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:31am
The adults are in charge and now they want to pay filthy rich to have babies and charge struggling parents to take their babies to a doctor.
The cons are fundamentally flawed in their thinking ~ punishing the working class while subside the wealthy. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:32am ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:31am:
Hang on, if they are rich, wouldn't they own a shower and hence, not be filthy? |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Greens_Win on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:35am Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:32am:
So you don't disagree that the cons have their priorities wrong … you are more worried about how the rich shower. Small things amuse small minds. Taxing people to take their children to a doctor has long term ramifications for society and the budget's bottom line. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:38am ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:35am:
Yes, I agree. The con-artist ALP have their priorities wrong. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Greens_Win on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:41am Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:38am:
Yet it's the economic illiterate abbott that is wanting new taxes against the weakest and sick of our society. How to judge a government is how they treat the weakest of society … and abbott mob has already failed this test. Stop taxing sick children. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:43am ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:41am:
Labor & the Greens should've supported axing the carbon dioxide tax. After all, carbon dioxide is an essential element to life on Earth. What does Labor and the Greens have against life on Earth, hmmm??? Stop taxing life on Earth! :-? |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Greens_Win on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:48am Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:43am:
Best you can do light weight? Abbott is taxing sick children and I hope people with families remember this when Abbott is forced to a DD this term. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by salad in on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:54am
Will this $5 fee eat into the cost of playing bingo at the local club?
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Money for bingo or should I use that money to see the doctor? I'm having trouble sorting out my priorities. Some thinking music please............... |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Greens_Win on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:57am
This child tax is more aimed against the religious who have large families … religious families like catholics.
Is abbott turning anti catholic. He is now in office so can drop all the masks. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 7:06am ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:48am:
You're taxing every man, woman, child, dog, cat, bird in the country! Stop hating life on Earth!!! >:( |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 7:07am ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:57am:
Grasping at straws there much? That the best you can do, lightweight? :-? |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Greens_Win on Dec 30th, 2013 at 7:11am Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 7:06am:
Making a empty claim is your only defence of the mean spirited and high taxing abbott attacking sick children. You are not really worth replying to. If I don't reply to your posts any more, please take it personally. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Armchair_Politician on Dec 30th, 2013 at 7:15am ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 7:11am:
____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:57am:
*Coughs* Hypocrite! *Coughs* ::) Please don't be upset if I don't lose sleep over you not posting nonsense directed at me anymore. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by bogarde73 on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:58am
imcrook, you already started a thread on this topic. If you can't make any converts with one thread, you're not going to increase your chances with another one.
Apart from which, you only encourage Green out from his burrow with topics like this and that's more than a bloke can cope with at any time. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Innocent bystander on Dec 30th, 2013 at 11:26am
Too many pensioners using the doctor for a social visit, we should introduce a fat tax to pay for all the morbidly obese's health costs too.
Five bucks isn't enough, make it ten, I'm tired of subsidizing holiday homes and imported vehicles for revolving door doctors that spend their whole day telling healthy people they are sick. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Bam on Dec 30th, 2013 at 12:39pm Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:26am:
We now have an incompetent Treasurer spending our money like a drunken sailor who is really borrowing with an unlimited credit limit. If you didn't want an unlimited credit limit, don't vote Liberal. Quote:
We now have an incompetent & sexist PM introducing numerous new taxes without a mandate and scaring off investment in this country and killing off the auto industry. If you wanted to keep the auto industry, don't vote Liberal. You're really laying it on thick with your rubbish arguments. You may be wilfully ignorant of the sins of the Liberals but the 10% drop in support in WA with a Senate revote likely there shows that everyone else is not. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Generation X on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:45pm ____ wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 6:41am:
Sky rocketing child care under the last labor/greens gov comes to mind we had sick kids back then too. Sky rocketing electricity bill for parents with those sick kids under the last labor/greens gov comes to mind Sky rocketing health insurance under the last labor/greens gov comes to mind we had sick kids back then too The billions wasted by the last labor/greens gov comes to mind, they didnt give a rats about the kids. How many sole parents with sick kids had the sole parent pension taken away under the labor/greens gov. Again, you have proven to be one huge blind knob sucker you idiot! You need to banned from this forum! you bring nothing but utter bullshyte here. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by John Smith on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:51pm De-registered User wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:45pm:
you said something about brain washed????? |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Generation X on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:53pm John Smith wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:51pm:
What did the labor/greens do to reduce all this whilst in power? Your not stupid smith! |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by John Smith on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:55pm De-registered User wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:53pm:
have you ever seen costs of services going down? ever? under ANY government? |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Generation X on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:57pm John Smith wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:55pm:
I hate this forum, you guys can never face the truth of your own |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by John Smith on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:58pm De-registered User wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 8:57pm:
you haven't even stopped to consider for a second that perhaps it's you who refuses to face the truth, have you? |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Generation X on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:04pm
bugger the lot of ya's, your all weak bastards behind a computer, GO AND GET buggerED YOU CU#TS
Labor/Greens that you supported buggered this country, now the new gov is trying to get grips on all the shyte and all you can do is turn a blind eye to previous governments wasted crap and blame the new gov. YOU front bottoms NEED TO HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT THE SHYTE YOU SUPPORT, YOUR all front bottoms!!!! See ya all, i out of this shyte forum! |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by John Smith on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:06pm De-registered User wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:04pm:
so that was a no then? Ok, enough said ..... seeya. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by Innocent bystander on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:13pm John Smith wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:06pm:
Ha ha poor Gen X can't come to terms with the fact that the lefts whole mission in life is to f#ck sh#t up, he's needs to realise its not personal, they were just born that way, just as surely as a retarded baby was born to sit in a deluxe motorized wheelchair, frothing at the mouth while thrashing around like a spastic octopus, is that his fault?, of course not, its just natures way. |
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Title: Re: Don't New A New Tax On Taking Family To Doctor. Post by John Smith on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:52pm Innocent bystander wrote on Dec 30th, 2013 at 9:13pm:
now now IB, it has never been my intention or purpose to f#ck you up ..... what ever gave you that idea? |
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