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sounds interesting

By: Spider (Registered ) on 11-11-2007 03:09

That sounds interesting but have the Greens revealed how they are going to fund such a grand scheme?

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funding...

By: anne_elk (Registered ) on 11-11-2007 03:38

I'm not a spokesperson for the Greens, so asking them directly would be the way to go : 
During past elections, funding would have come from OUR TAXES, which (still) go into the hands of private insurance companies, private hospitals, private child care centers, and private aged care facilities. 
 
Yes, we pay taxes, those taxes which should be spent directly on OUR health system. But currently those taxes do not. They go into the coffers of private companies' We then have to pay again if we want to be able to take advantage of "decent" health care - via "private health insurance".  
The Government then "subsidises" these payments (with our taxes). 
- and even then we pay the "excess". 
 
The current system of health "taxation" stinks! 
 
The Greens policies fix the system so that our taxes go directly BACK into OUR health industry, as they should. 
 
Millions of our dollars are being diverted, ask the Greens for exact figures.

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woops....

By: anne_elk (Registered ) on 11-11-2007 03:41

Hi again Spider,  
 
Sorry didn't paste the address for any further questions you may have. 
 
greens@greens.org.au 
 
Cheers :-)

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Finding the money...???

By: anne_elk (Registered ) on 13-11-2007 06:59

Hi to anyone who has followed this tread. 
I shot off an email to the Greens asking Spider's question for him... 
Here is their reply: 
 
"Hi Anne, 
 
The funding of our health initiatives will come from the $3.5 billion dollars which does not go to the private health insurance rebate scheme 
(i.e. this is cost neutral - we do not need to find any more money). This money will instead be allocated to the public health system. I thought this was pretty clear in the policy. Perhaps you can convey this to the forum. 
I am too busy to join it. 
 
Regards, 
 
Peter Johnson 
Administrative Support 
National Office 
Australian Greens 
admin@greens.org.au 
 
So in summary... Our current Government hands over  
a whopping $3.5 BILLION dollars of OUR tax dollars to private health. How's that for private health corporations "double dipping" into our pockets (and our health system)! 
 
Cheers all 
Anne

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be careful with your figures

By: Murray for Oxley (Registered ) on 13-11-2007 09:57

While you may disagree with how to fund health, some of the money that goes into private health insurance actually pays to make sick people better. That $3.5bn is not simply a handout to the health insurance industry. 
 
Similarly, the idea of governments subsidising private companies is not new, nor is it foreign to the Greens, who advocate subsidising R&D into alternate energy sources amongst other things.  
 
I'm not saying that providing funding for those is a bad thing, but subsidies themselves are not bad and only a purely capitalist system (that doesn't exist anywhere) would have no government involvement in business at all - something neither me (nor do I suspect the Greens) support.

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