aquascoot wrote on Oct 24
th, 2019 at 8:03am:
Mattyfisk wrote on Oct 24
th, 2019 at 7:30am:
aquascoot wrote on Oct 24
th, 2019 at 6:51am:
If the government run it
You can guarantee that there will be an enormous administrative cost
And there will be masses of charlatans who are drawn like bees to a honeypot
Best not let the government run anything
Maybe the military and border security
But kind compassionate noble members of the community a far more flexible sensible and competent then clock watching yawning public servants who just want to get back to the water bubbler and gossip about the latest contestants on the bachelor
The whole point of the NDIS is that there's as minimal government involvement as possible. It's a national insurance scheme.
The only way you could get less government administration is to outsource the ATO.
I can guarantee you it will end up like the job network
Massively lucrative for the service providers
An absolutely appalling services for the people who are most vulnerable
That's just how government schemes always end up being run
Far better to leave it in the hands of the noble charities who are passionate and committed to their customers and not to constructing their own little empire
What are you saying, dear? It's the noble charities and service providers doing the rorting. The job network provider rorts only existed
after privatisation.
Disability services used to be run by the states. Their version was government-run and private institutions and group homes. St John of God. The Richmond Fellowship, the House With No Steps.
Today, there are alternative solutions that allow people to live independently. There's disability access in trains and busses, for example. Also, as we've transitioned to a service economy, a lot of work involves communication, which can be assisted with various technologies.
The Minister of Community Services in NSW is fully blind. Once, blindness was considered such a major disability, the blind were automatically granted the blind pension.
And you're right, the move to for-profit service providers in the disability sector is ripe for scams, just like the job network. This is the natural effect of
less governance.