Medicare is different welfare payments like unemployment benefits, disability pensions, old age pensions, that's separate to Medicare. Recently we've had a national disability scheme to improve the lives of people with disabilities and keep them living in the community leading as normal as possible lives. Its a fantastic idea but the scheme has been very poorly designed and is being widely defrauded by providers exploding the cost to the budget. What the government needs to do but lacks the political capital to do is bring the system under the control of health services and remove private providers who are defrauding the tax payer. I've had through work and through my parents heaps of contact with these providers they will employ every mechanism they can to inflate costs and increase their profits, in short they act as private businesses. It has to stop or the scheme will be torn up which would be a real shame.
You know I pay over 100k per year in tax, either directly through income tax, sales tax, excise on alcohol and tax from my businesses, I maybe go to the doctor once a year I have very little contact with government services. I may be one of the few who is happy to do so because I acknowledge that it pays for services for the whole community (beer excise should be scrapped the price of a pint is now 15 dollars 8 dollars of that is tax, its a ****ing scandal).
