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The last time I saw a specialist who visited 'a day a two a month' was when I saw a podiatrist at Mount Isa Base Hospital - one of the base hospitals of the RFDS. While Mount Isa had a resident OBGYN, a couple of surgeons etc, specialty drs such as podiatrists etc, visited periodically - or you...

Could the drs not accepting Medicare and Medicaid patients also come down to profits? My GP receives ~$30 per consult from the government (I think I don’t get the bill) and he pays himself and his staff and rent etc. He doesn’t shove you through the door just to get another patient in. He takes...

Ours is 726m^2 (thanks for showing me how to do that thingy). It’s almost duplexable but not subdividable.

Umm.. what’s so difficult about being able to go to a dr and not have to pay? Okay - here it is in a nutshell. 1. I pay 2% of my taxable income as a Medicare levy. This allows anyone medical treatment. 2. The government pays 30% of any contributions to a private health fund that I make...

What makes our system a "complicated, messed-up, cobbled-together hodge-podge of a system." If you are sick you go to a doctor. If the doctor demands payment instead of bulk billing, they take care of the claim for you. I walk in to my GP, have an appointment, get my scripts, and walk out. If I...

Yes, Real estate has gone bananas here. And yes, migrants are an issue - simply those moving from southern states (where Real Estate Prices are much higher than those in Queensland) to Queensland. And the move was driven by Covid and how we managed the pandemic. It has caused an issue - A BIG...

I follow the same philosophy at school. If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves. And by little, I mean a bag of apples or mandarins so kids have brain food to learn, buying cheap colouring pencils etc so that the kids have stuff to do their work. They know...

I could help more - but we are trying to pay off the mortgage so we can retire... should we have a massive windfall, I would like to move from here and convert this house into a refuge place for homeless people - particularly domestic violence victims. It is built in downstairs with a massive...

Our homeless situation, I think, has been driven by the floods of people moving from NSW and VIC where Covid was rampant, and that drove house prices up - which drove rents up on rental properties, and the COL has also risen, meaning you sometimes had to choose - rent or food. We had a few tent...

We do have charities... some secular I believe, though mostly religious ones... and they don't discriminate. We have the NDIS system as well, which allows disabled peoples (and believe me they have identified a broad range of disabilities) that provides social workers, home help, general...

I’m making loaded beans tonight and tomorrow. I take canned beans of different variety and some lentils (canned are just quicker), add chorizo sausage for spice, spices and ham hock meat and cook it up with some tomatoes, capsicum and mushrooms. Let it cook down and serve in tortilla boats with...

Hang about. I want to make sure I have comprehended this remark properly by asking a couple of questions. Is there social housing in the US that people can access to help them get off the street? If so, who pays for it to be built? We have a massive homeless issue here that our state...

You made remarks that in the context of what I was reading sounded the way I interpreted them. I understand that you don’t need assistance, and so don’t want it. Fair enough. You don’t need to take it. But would you be willing to contribute to a system where everyone has access to the assistance...

...than editing the quote but hey.. Sue me) Needing to eat is neither an indulgence nor an offence, but a misfortune. So if the above quote attributed* to Bevan were valid reasoning then it would imply agriculture should be socialize So I refer to the soup kitchen again. Why shouldn’t those...

So why shouldn’t the wealthy assist those less fortunate? Bilby and I are ion a reasonable income, but we still help those less fortunate than us - particularly in my job as a teacher. I buy fruit for brain break, and so many pencils (fuck me can those kids eat them or what?), just so my kids...

@bilby would know how much we pay. I know for our UHC I pay 2% of my taxable income. Not sure how much our private one is (which is offset by the government who gives you a reduction on how much Medicare levy you pay). We only use private health to choose the dr and hospital so that waiting...

Ummmmm you had to pay for flu and Covid shots? Here they are free. While at first they were only free for people at risk (of which I am mum thanks to psoriatic arthritis and the plaquenil I am on), within a year they were free for everyone. Flu shots are free for over 65 and at risk people, I...