Working with PM Fraser - burying White Australia - Part 4 https://t.co/QBtoVRvM2d
Those were the days when personal integrity and honesty ruled policy making and not income and capitalism
NSW AG based Kathleen Folbigg’s compo on ‘no state malfeasance’, but no one has looked https://t.co/wW4R8Ad9iJ we should call for a Royal commission- too much speculation,
On the 1st July 1975, 50 years ago, the Whitlam Labor Govt introduced Medibank, Australia's first universal healthcare system. It allowed every Australian free and affordable healthcare, before being gutted and privatised by the Fraser Liberal Govt. #auspol#healthcare
Has anyone been watching The Piano with Amanda Keller on ABC-TV ? It’s magic television in so many ways, mining a rich lode of piano talent. And she handles it beautifully.
Hands off our health system.
Australians see medicine as a right, and health as a collective benefit, not least because there is an intergenerational public cost of poor health and sickness.
Made worse if Aussies cannot access preventative medicines or have to go into debt to access life-saving treatments.
A health system should operate at the lowest possible cost that enable the highest standards. As soon as people have to make choices about whether to compromise on treatments, a country has warped priorities.
No one wants, nor has any respect for an American health industry with lower health outcomes, lower life expectancy, higher chronic disease rates, higher infant mortality.
And extremely high profits.