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SA premier says federal pledge of $2.2bn for Medicare does not ‘do enough’
The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has called on the federal government to improve its investment in healthcare, saying their promises do not go far enough.
The Albanese government is acknowledging that there is a problem that needs to be fixed and that’s a pretty important start and we are seeing an increase in resources coming from the federal government – that $2.2bn you mentioned. Of course, there was the Strengthening Medicare taskforce as well.
These are all important works, but it would be naive to suggest that this alone will address what is a genuine crisis when it comes to primary health care, and access to GPs right around the nation.
That’s new money that we would have to find. We’re simply not in a position to be able to say today if can we deliver each and every one of those projects and have we got enough money to do so.
The scale of this has really come to light as we’ve started to investigate going forward for the next budget.
Continue reading…Sydney MP demands apology from NSW One Nation leader for ‘homosexual vilification’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSA premier says federal pledge of $2.2bn for Medicare does not ‘do enough’The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has called on the federal government to improve its investment in healthcare, saying their promises do not go far enough.The Albanese government is acknowledging that there is a problem that needs to be fixed and that’s a pretty important start and we are seeing an increase in resources coming from the federal government – that $2.2bn you mentioned. Of course, there was the Strengthening Medicare taskforce as well.These are all important works, but it would be naive to suggest that this alone will address what is a genuine crisis when it comes to primary health care, and access to GPs right around the nation.That’s new money that we would have to find. We’re simply not in a position to be able to say today if can we deliver each and every one of those projects and have we got enough money to do so.The scale of this has really come to light as we’ve started to investigate going forward for the next budget. Continue reading…