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(ABC)
I had to separate Mental Health from Health as I am soooooo tired of Health being seen just as Medical Doctors, Drugs and Hospitals. I really do feel that if you don’t fit into that Health equation you just are off the radar. I get the AMA and large pharmaceutical companies have lost of money and power for lobbying … but I am MAD AS HELL that other health concerns like Mental Health are sweeped under the carpet because they don’t fit that equation.
Coalition
- In favour of a 100 per cent hospital funding takeover, but only if states agree and not with use of GST revenue
- $3.1 billion for 2,800 beds, including the 800 announced as part of the Coalition’s mental health policy
- $165 million to increase GP Medicare rebates for after-hours services
- $200 million for grants to help GPs expand their practices and $300 million for extra GP rebates for longer consultations
- The formation of local boards to run hospitals
Labor
- A $50 billion plan to take over 60 per cent of funding for public hospital services, funded in part by a 30 per cent clawback of state GST revenue
- Full funding responsibility for GP and primary care services
- $5.4 billion to fund more elective surgery, a four-hour emergency department target, special treatment for diabetics, 5,500 GPs over the next decade and 1,316 new sub-acute care beds by 2014
- Local networks to manage hospitals and allocate funding per patient treated
Greens
- Launch a national dental care scheme
- A 1.5 per cent levy on junk food and alcohol advertising
- Ban junk food ads during children’s TV viewing hours, until 9:30pm
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