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Originally Posted by multiweb
I agree with this. Paying for Doctor visits. in 94 it would cost me about $40.00 to see a GP back home. So as you say you don't go there for a nose bleed. Having said that, each GP practice is private. So it's natural selection. The good ones get the customers, the bad ones close doors. In turn the service you get for your 40 bucks was second to none.
Come to Australia, I was surprised to hear Medicare, Bulk billing, free, etc... That was foreign to me. There's no such things as freebee. 
$7 is nothing really. It's gonna clear all the waiting rooms of all the bludgers for sure. |
An additional $7 "gap" fee at the Drs isn't going to make me go hungry - they only bulk bill people with health care cards - but as a self funded retiree I don't get any of the perks the employed (like tax deduction for my private health insurance), the unemployed and OAPs get.
As for jobs, there are people who will never have the ability to do anything more intelligent than leaning on a council shovel. Sounds harsh but it is true. Jobs like that are disappearing. Forcing them to go to year 12 just delays when they start the dole and can disrupt the rest of the school.
Then there are the people who would do better leaving school earlier and going to TAFE, but we can see from the cuts how important the govt thinks TAFE is. Are you ready for $120K per uni degree per child?