In 2021 Victoria originally had 500 ICU beds- that was reduced to 300. Does anyone remember Dan Andrew’s promise of 4,000 ICU beds? At one stage they took 200 beds out of the system, and later closed three floors of Monash Clayton. Pressure on hospitals is by design. If you go through the legislative changes to Medicare since it’s incep…
In 2021 Victoria originally had 500 ICU beds- that was reduced to 300. Does anyone remember Dan Andrew’s promise of 4,000 ICU beds? At one stage they took 200 beds out of the system, and later closed three floors of Monash Clayton. Pressure on hospitals is by design. If you go through the legislative changes to Medicare since it’s inceptions and correlate it to changes in private health funds ie when individual health funds could negotiate with private hospitals, have individual contracts with specialists and cancelling ability of fund participants to insure for gap insurance ( out of pocket costs) , our universal health care has been designed to fail. Before Turnbull was rolled the ABC in a doorstep of interview asked him where Medicare was going. His answer was that they are trying to make it more like the US. Also ABS figures show the biggest beneficiaries f our current system are the wealthy.
In 2021 Victoria originally had 500 ICU beds- that was reduced to 300. Does anyone remember Dan Andrew’s promise of 4,000 ICU beds? At one stage they took 200 beds out of the system, and later closed three floors of Monash Clayton. Pressure on hospitals is by design. If you go through the legislative changes to Medicare since it’s inceptions and correlate it to changes in private health funds ie when individual health funds could negotiate with private hospitals, have individual contracts with specialists and cancelling ability of fund participants to insure for gap insurance ( out of pocket costs) , our universal health care has been designed to fail. Before Turnbull was rolled the ABC in a doorstep of interview asked him where Medicare was going. His answer was that they are trying to make it more like the US. Also ABS figures show the biggest beneficiaries f our current system are the wealthy.