What is being proposed this week on future hospital funding by the Federal government is very important, especially if you think that you or your family may become increasingly bigger users of the hospital system in the next 10 to 15 years.

All the State premiers are jumping up and down, claiming that the cost of hospitals is rising by around 6.5 per cent a year while the Abbott government’s cost-cutting regime limited its hospital funding growth to approximately 4 per cent. Over the next four years, the states will be $8 billion short, so hospital services will have to be cut, they say.

Malcolm Turnbull has turned his back on the Abbott government’s funding restrictions and removed the blunt club that Tony Abbott was applying to the hospitals at short notice.  He has presented a new idea, with the state income tax, to be rolled out from 2021... 

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