Medicare concerns
In essence, the Morrison Turnbull government wants to convert the current health system to a market for private profit driven medical services and destroy the Medicare as a low cost universal based on patients needs.
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Everyone knows patients faced with serious illness or death would pay almost anything for proper treatment, their treatment would depend on ability to pay and borrow.
Morrison is trying to pit those on lower incomes against the better paid by arguing that the system was always intended to be of greatest help to the poorest members of the community.
He sees no contradiction in taking this phoney and hypocritical position while continuing to provide lavish assistance to the private health fund's Medicare was intended to provide a high standard of health care regardless of one's income, which we all know can change radically from week to week.
It was intended to be accessible by all and to be paid for by all.
On the basis of ability to pay, health cost in the US is astronomical more than 40 percent of US citizens have no health insurance and no health cover at all.
And this is the sort of health care system which would be established in Australia if the government takes away your Medicare card in next months budget.
Matty Ryan, Fairy meadow
Read my words
Malcolm Turnbull read my words: The $12 billion Snowy Hydro 2.0 is a waste of taxpayers’ money.
SH2.0 is a conservative confidence trick.
The losers will be taxpayers and those reliant on government spending.
And where will all the money be going?
It will end up on the stock exchanges of Sydney, Singapore and other business capitals.
SH2.0 is money down the drain. I predict SH2.0 might even in the long run increase the megawatt hourly rate paid by retailers.
This letter is a testament to the future—if the government goes ahead with Snowy Hydro 2.0 it will ever be condemned for deserting each and every Australian‘s right to reliable cheap energy.
The reality is, recent governments work in secrecy; they produce sugar coated press releases predicting rosy coloured futures—billion dollar Utopian lifestyles that do not materialise and turn into expressionless excuse ridden disappointments.
The trust in government has changed to a fiction oration of “Trust me and believe me—I speak the truth”.
While a wide-eyed audience stands in silence; cynical inner thoughts voicing the phrase “bullshit”.
John Macleod, Berry
An empty boast
In his address at the Dawn Service Rear Admiral Bruce Kafer reminded “us not to glamorise or glorify warfare – it is often a dirty, shocking and violent activity”.
And it also fails to question why we go to war.
With the election of President Trump the decision to go to war at his bequest must be questioned.
He boasts to “make America great again”.
He bragged that unleashing missiles on Syria was “mission completed”.
American involvement in recent wars has revealed that an empty boast.
It has led to continuing wars that are costing lives and economies that prioritise wasteful spending on war.
A policy that deprives spending on health, hospitals, education, assistance to the unemployed and the homeless.
Its time Canberra’s political class ceased supporting wars to make ‘America great again’.
We should listen to British labour leader Jeremy Corban who said “we should not go to war on the whim of an American president”.
Reg Wilding, Wollongong
