Adam Bandt is correct, #Labor is the dog whose tail is still wagged by the #LNP. #Stage3taxcuts have to go. The need for trained people in all areas should mean #FreeTAFE #FreeEd #BulkBilling #FreeChildCare #Insiders #AusPol

#Bulkbilling #auspol

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-20/federal-electorates-where-no-doctors-offer-bulk-billing-revealed/102239990?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=abc_news_newsmail_pm_sfmc&utm_term=&utm_id=2071997&sfmc_id=223395461

One of these days I will master multi-platform communications and my work and personal commitments will flow naturally around this.

I’ve had a rough time following the news lately, seeing so much pain reflected in so many areas of our society. Social cohesion is breaking down along racial, sex, identify and class lines at almost every turn - and it’s overwhelming that some very basic concepts of civil society as social cohesion aren’t being targeted more clearly.

I want our government to prioritise ending poverty and housing tenure and affordability issues. No life benefits from having to lift up and move regularly without a home base, or from a lack of ability to pay for the essentials.

Our prisons are filling up with poverty crimes. Including from domestic violence and break and enters. There’s fights and more graffiti. There’s less contentment and less protection for workers than at any other time in decades. Our Medicare #bulkbilling has fallen behind supporting doctors to provide healthcare to whole communities. Our hospitals are crowded because people who can’t afford a more and more common ask of paying the gap fee now have no alternative but to use them. Instead of demonstrating an understanding of the systemic nature of poverty creation we penalise and further entrench distrust of those we treat with such contempt.

What is Australian identity that so many can comfortably ignore such enormous tragedy for outcomes and lives?

#RaiseTheRate #JobSeeker #Housing

#medicare #bulkbilling
https://theconversation.com/what-if-medicare-was-restricted-to-gps-who-bulk-billed-this-kind-of-reform-is-possible-203543?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2012%202023%20-%202596026107&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2012%202023%20-%202596026107+CID_3cdd990b90af8f975e4df64f77ccdb34&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=What%20if%20Medicare%20was%20restricted%20to%20GPs%20who%20bulk%20billed%20This%20kind%20of%20reform%20is%20possible

#AusPol #BulkBilling
Well it's finally happened. Our local medical clinic is stopping bulk billing middle of December, making a copayment of $20-50 each visit because of rises in the rebates paid and increasing costs.

I need 6 month skin check for melanoma of $150 and 3 monthly blood tests, so 5 visits going to cost me $500 a year. I can no longer afford this on my aged pension.