Socialist Alliance in Western Australia will run activist candidates in the federal seat of Fremantle and the Senate on a 鈥淧eople before Profit鈥 platform. Janet Parker reports.
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Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has joined growing calls from medical聽 experts聽for incarcerated people to receive equal access to healthcare. Josh Adams reports.
The聽controversy over a recent investigation into alleged fraud in the Medicare system points to system failures resulting from chronic聽under-funding. Jim McIlroy reports.
Paul Keating has rejected聽the聽Greens' criticism聽that Labor聽adopted neoliberalism.聽Alex Bainbridge argues that聽Labor's policies on superannuation and Medicare are examples of user-pays systems that privilege the well-off.
Trans rights campaigners say that the push to聽remove聽gender neutral language from聽a Medicare form聽sets a dangerous聽precedent for an already marginalised section of the population.聽Nova Sobieralski听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
NSW Senate candidate Paula Sanchez told 91自拍论坛聽she is proud to receive聽support from聽the Latin American community, but has no illusions in how hard it will be to be elected and聽make the radical changes required.
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up many surprises, but none as sickening as the political right pretending to care about people鈥檚 mental health, argues聽Dechlan Brennan.
The federal government plans聽to reduce the number of health services聽it is prepared to subsidise with Medicare rebates. Jim McIlroy reports.
Long-term health care worker Zeta Henderson argues that the main lesson to be drawn from this second wave of COVID-19 in Victoria is that health care must be run as a service to the community.
The federal Coalition government鈥檚 reforms to private health insurance confirm its blind allegiance to a system most people do not support.
Most people prefer a universal public healthcare system, but ever since Medicare was introduced in 1984, successive governments have sought to divert public funds to the private health insurance sector.
The government spends about $6 billion annually on private health insurance rebates. Singles earning up to $140,000 and families earning up to $180,000 receive rebates of between 8.4% and 33.4%, depending on age and income.
From November 2016 until September 2017 I was as a guest of New South Wales Health. For much of that time I was in a desperate situation. I entered Campbelltown Hospital in septic shock and would certainly have died had it not been for the fabulous efforts of the doctors and nurses who treated me.
The hospital system is an excellent place for saving lives. Unfortunately, it is not geared for long-term inmates. The longer you have to stay, the more is likely to go wrong.
Federal government hospital spending rose by 80% in the decade to 2014, from $23 billion to $42 billion. This has led to a renewed push by conservatives for a new state income tax to fund health costs.
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