My bad, fixed
As a sequel to his cowardly failure to condemn genocide Albo now supports the unilateral escalation against Iran
To be clear most professors are senior in their field and usually indicates research as well as teaching, I was in a cantankerous mood this morning. But regardless Medicare needs to take access to specialist treatment seriously.
Nationalise the mines and be done with it
Yes, obviously medicare would need to increase the rebate and private insurance fees would necessarily increase(as they would now be actually paying for care rather than acting a a gatekeeping mechanism)
Rebate for a short consult with a specialist is $81.55, a long consult is $236.65.
The title professor indicates that they hold a teaching position and says nothing about their clinical skill. Plenty of specialists take the piss and leverage the title to charge ridiculous fees.
In my experience as a GP a reasonable standard fee for a specialist is around $300 with $80 back from Medicare. So yes the Medicare rebate would need to increase substantially but I doubt more than we will save when AUKUS falls through. It is within the capacity of a government with the right priorities. Also increasing the availability of public specialists would be a good companion policy.
IMO there needs to be some regulation around this, a simple measure would be to tie Medicare payments to a pricing structure(eg. a specialist can only charge the Medicare rebate + 20%).
If a specialist wants to charge more then that's fine but the patient(or insurance) will have to pay the full cost
Exactly, it's counter-productive to blame individuals for doing the best they know how in a broken system.
lemmy.ml is fine
The claim is that it is full of tankies. In fact what you'll find is that instead of a small number of obnoxious teenagers with a liberal world view making obnoxious comments you'll have a small number of obnoxious teenagers with a leftist world view making obnoxious comments.
People also claim that moderation is an issue on some communities, but hey, it's all federated, jump across elsewhere.
Hatred for lemmy.ml is just an echo chamber quirk.
This is awesome, gunna have a showdown with my wife every morning for a while
Has anyone ever suggested engaging Chinese companies to help develop Aussie high speed rail. Seems like an obvious option.
I understand there'd be some dog whistling around it but surely there's no actual sovereign threat if we develop local maintenance capacity.
Escalating conflict with someone with delusions of persecution is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Not knowing the system in the UK means I can't give very good specific advice. You may be able to contact a local mental health network and there is a good chance they will know him. Let them know what is going on in as much detail as possible and suggest that he is increasingly agitated and alienating himself from the community. It sounds like this gentleman needs a conpulsory treatment order or whatever the UK equivalent is.
So I can run an extension lead and get a few more hours of sunlight on the solar panels through the winter
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Breaking with the US will be painful for Australia in many ways – but it’s inevitable | John Quiggin
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Finance minister reveals a further $2bn in savings in Tuesday’s federal budget
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JobSeeker has long been far below the Henderson Poverty Line.
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Labor’s own Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee has again urged it to raise JobSeeker and other welfare payments ahead of the federal budget on March 25.
Its latest report was unambiguous, saying raising payments “remains the number one priority and that doing so would deliver significant economic and social benefits”.
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I'm sending a collection of these to my wife. Any good boob shaped ones?