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Not to be political...but the elephant in the room...health care reform
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 350078" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>SRL, I'll have to check out the skyrocketing costs in the 80's thing. We did have a lot of problems then, with our health system looking like it was bankrupting the country. At least that's what its critics were saying. </p><p></p><p>Our bipartisan political system (it does work differently to yours) means that we can get very confused with a lot of political point-scoring and not a lot of factual information. </p><p></p><p>A lot of costs went up and are still going up. We have a lot of new technologies which make diagnostics and treatment a lot better, but which also cost.</p><p></p><p>Our health care system has been re-worked a lot of times over the years to make it cheaper. Maybe it's the current economic times, maybe it's the long list of other problems our government is working on, but right now nobody here is screaming about the cost of health care. The only health care issue on the Aussie horizon at the moment is the Federal government's planned takeover of the currently state-based hospitals. Not a whisper about Medicare costs. In fact, this will add to the Medicare workload for us. </p><p></p><p>I'll do some checking, you raised a good point.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 350078, member: 1991"] SRL, I'll have to check out the skyrocketing costs in the 80's thing. We did have a lot of problems then, with our health system looking like it was bankrupting the country. At least that's what its critics were saying. Our bipartisan political system (it does work differently to yours) means that we can get very confused with a lot of political point-scoring and not a lot of factual information. A lot of costs went up and are still going up. We have a lot of new technologies which make diagnostics and treatment a lot better, but which also cost. Our health care system has been re-worked a lot of times over the years to make it cheaper. Maybe it's the current economic times, maybe it's the long list of other problems our government is working on, but right now nobody here is screaming about the cost of health care. The only health care issue on the Aussie horizon at the moment is the Federal government's planned takeover of the currently state-based hospitals. Not a whisper about Medicare costs. In fact, this will add to the Medicare workload for us. I'll do some checking, you raised a good point. Marg [/QUOTE]
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