Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom

Ascended

[Meshy @meshygrey]

🔥 You don’t know the story behind the urgent care clinics?

Listen:
Luba Grigorovitch (ex-CFMEU, now Victorian Labor, with personal ties to Setka) is married to Ben Gray, a founding partner of private equity firm BGH Capital.
BGH owns ForHealth, Australia’s largest bulk-billing provider.

Since acquiring ForHealth, the company has locked in contracts to run around one-third of Labor’s Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and is doing very nicely out of the government’s $8.5 billion Medicare incentives package.

ForHealth has flipped from multimillion-dollar losses to an $8 million profit in 2023–24, and has been a vocal cheerleader for the policy.

Luba Grigorovitch and Ben Gray tied the knot at their $30 million clifftop mansion. Dan Andrews was there, right alongside CFMEU boss John Setka.

Ben Gray has also hosted fundraisers for Anthony Albanese’s election campaign—while Albanese and Labor keep pushing the advertising.

It was never about easing the pressure on hospitals. They’re shifting our old local GP model to a drop-in, impersonal, union and government controlled health centres.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“They insulted me in seventy lines and only the spelling mistakes bothered me.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Michael Livingston @DrMLivingston]

Bulk billing in action

Opened by @Mark_Butler_MP

Urgent care centre “bulk billed” where only 1/3rd of the total amount paid is actually bulk billed and nearly 2/3rds comes from a commonwealth grant.
The practice is paid $246.50 per patient visit. 4 per hour. 12 hours a day.
$11832 a day, $82824 a week, $4.3 million per year.

Yet the standard GP practice Mixed Billing why isn’t it bulk billing as well?
Because of the huge drop.
The same patients seen in that setting the rebate $43.90 + $20.65 if bulk billing total $64.55.

If the practice was fully bulk billing they would have to see 4 patients to make what they do off a single UCC patient. This is why bulk billing alone isn’t financially viable long term.

Now you see also the rural/metro divide in funding is also absolutely huge.

4 low category patients with seen in 1 hour in metro at a UCC are ‘worth’ financially more than a single rural generalist keeping an intubated, ventilated patients alive for 5 or more hours for retrieval.

It makes more financial sense to jack in the highly skilled job of an RG. Open a UCC in an at need area and take the huge amount of funding per patient, as the government is willing to fund a single UCC at $4.3 million a year whereas rurally no such commonwealth grant funding exists.

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

―Charles Bukowski

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“Depression cannot hit a moving target.”

Best shit I’ve heard all year.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Walking behind an older couple holding hands, and the woman said "did you notice the daffodils are back?" And he said "I notice everything you love."

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

“On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its wage price index for the December quarter of 2025, which confirmed that real wages fell for the second consecutive quarter.

On an annual basis, public sector wages grew at a faster pace than the private sector for the fourth consecutive quarter.

Annual public sector wage growth was 4.0% in the year to December 2025, up from 2.8% at the same time last year.

Private sector wages rose 3.4% over the same period. This was higher than the 3.3% growth recorded in the year to December 2024.

Australian real wages in the December quarter of 2025 were still tracking 6% below their Covid-19 ‘bubble’ peak at around late 2011 levels.”

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These figures are bad. As in really bad.

Wage growth in Australia has gone nowhere since 2011.

What’s worse is that private sector wages have gone backwards.

Nothing epitomises just how badly the Uniparty has run Australia economy than these figures.

No wonder Australians feel like they are getting nowhere.

[Marko Matvikov @MarkoMatvikov]

“For 18 months spending growth was entirely due to population growth with per capita spending in decline.

Now that’s positive at least but population growth is still contributing 80% of the growth in private demand.”

Or in other words, while you did it tough to bring inflation down, your government flooded the country to keep it high.

[𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝚟𝚜 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫 @DanielvsBabylon]

How I managed to inherit Adam's sins and not Solomon's wealth is beyond me.

[‘it’s a supply issue’ @nascentjude]

Australia builds more homes per capita than nearly anywhere else on the planet

It’s not a supply issue, it’s an immigration fuelled demand crisis

[Adam Creighton @Adam_Creighton]

"The Government had presided over a cumulative $3,177 increase in electricity costs since the its commitment to cut bills by $275."
https://t.co/Jy3BXQQMfj

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@imagesaicouldnt Understood

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@imagesaicouldnt Big quartz doesn’t want you to know this

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@liquidatedx @plebcapital Fuck man this country

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@imagesaicouldnt Bro looking in a mirror

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@imagesaicouldnt Someone had to say it

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@imagesaicouldnt Inerested

[Lord Snek Earl of Coomdom @Luckyjoe300]

@imagesaicouldnt Chills