A plan to force more than 3 million Australians aged over 65 to pay hundreds of dollars more for their private health insurance has been slammed by the opposition as a “sneaky tax” on seniors.
Health Minister Mark Butler announced changes for those over 65s before the budget confirming older Australians will have to pay the same amount for health insurance as people in their 50s.
#The removal of higher private health insurance rebates for those #aged 65 is expected to increase private health
insurance costs by up to $250
a year and cause around 44,000 to abandon their cover according to some calculations.
At the time, Mr Butler said the current policy was "not fair between generations" but pledged the $3 billion saved over four years, would be spent on aged care.
Speaking on Channel 7's
Sunrise, the Health Minister accused the Health Insurance industry of peddling "self-serving modelling"
"But we're confident that this is the right decision, and it's important to remember while we're doing this, we have to find more money for aged care services,"
‘MEAN-SPIRITED’: Row erupts, 3 million Aussies cop new ‘$11 billion tax’ https://t.co/n5GGdQ7tp3
🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate has just REJECTED the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50 — would've required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide
REPUBLICAN NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins
UNBELIEVABLE!!
It needed 60 votes.
Why can't the Senate pass what over 80% of Americans want?!
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING
Sonja Terpstra has officially lost the plot.
There are entire social media groups dedicated to sharing pothole photos across Victoria.
Nothing Victorians love more than the thrill of swerving into a tree to dodge a crater… or a fun little trip to the mechanic for a wheel alignment and new tyres.
Absolute favourite pastime! 🤡🤡🤡
@Ausbobsmit Albanese is a cringeworthy coward like the criminal Victoria Police officer Mario MARCUCCI: their brazenness proves Australia having no functional law-enforcement.
The first credible threat to crime & corruption in Australia are Pauline & One Nation.
@Ausbobsmit Albanes can do as he likes
He has control of Australia's Parliament therefore all our judiciary police & military
He will have no hesitation turning those on Australians to protect his power
@OneNationAus@SharriMarkson
Anthony Albanese thinks he can simply ignore the ongoing questions surrounding that disgraceful meeting where he and Dan Andrews attended the mansion of a 24 year old, who's old man has gambled $2 billion through Star city casino and is on the run from the ATO with a tax bill of over $230 million.
It stinks
We're not letting this go
You will be held to account
🚨 HOLY SHIT!!! ICE JUST ARRESTED THE BOSSES 🚨
They didn’t just round up the illegals…
They ARRESTED the Plant Manager and HR Coordinator at a casting company in Abbeville, South Carolina for employing 48 illegal immigrants.
Both of them now face YEARS in prison.
This is how you end the magnet.
No more free passes for the employers who hire them.THIS is what we voted for.
Share this so every company gets the message.
🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE VICTORY JUST DROPPED! 🚨
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has OFFICIALLY upheld the lower court ruling — President Trump’s order STANDS!
USPS can NOW send mail-in ballots ONLY to voters on verified citizenship lists!
NO MORE free-for-all ballots.
NO MORE unchecked distribution.
ONLY real American citizens.
This is a COLOSSAL WIN for election integrity — the biggest step yet to secure our elections and protect the sacred right to vote!
The radical left tried to stop it…
They FAILED.
The courts just sided with WE THE PEOPLE. 🔥🔥🔥
Retweet this like your vote depends on it.
Share it everywhere.
The swamp is losing. America is winning. 🇺🇸🦅
A HUGE UPDATE: IT IS WORKING EVERYONE: WE HAVE 11 Senators who support CANCELLING their Vacation to pass the Save America Act:
🟢 Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)
🟢 Senator Jim Banks (R-IN)
🟢 Senator Katie Britt (R-AL)
🟢 Senator Rick Scott (R-FL)
🟢 Senator Todd Young (R-IN)
🟢 Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
🟢 Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO)
🟢 Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL)
🟢 Senator Darline Graham (R-SC)
🟢 Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL)
🟢 Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
KEEP GETTING LOUD MAGA. WE NEED TO GROW THIS LIST ASAP
BREAKING: RBA Governor Michele Bullock just confirmed what every struggling Australian already knows:
Inflation is still too high.
Jobs market needs to weaken further.
More rate hikes are on the table.
Why? Because this Labor government has spent like drunken sailors for years, pouring fuel on the fire while pretending it’s someone else’s problem.
Bullock even admits monetary policy can’t fix the mess when productivity is dead and demand is being propped up by reckless government spending.
Albanese’s answer?
Keep spending. Keep taxing. Keep making mortgage holders and renters suffer.
This is the price of Labor’s economic vandalism.
Australians are paying for it.
Every. Single. Month.