Doping, health and politics
Readers express their views about the week’s news in InDaily.
RICHARD ABBOTT: Re the InDaily opinion piece, Exposing dopers: is it worth the cost?, I have always thought it odd that you can get a legal prescription to “keep you going” without telling the boss your ailment, be it physical or mental.
It’s still performance enhancing without the boss knowing.
H. RICHARD BRINKMAN: Re SA economy hits casino revenue, our grief is inconsolable. Quick! Throw millions of the taxpayer’s money at it!
J. MELBOURNE: Re private versus public hospital systems and becoming a paid up health cover member, one does wonder about the plusses and minuses.
With private health cover, you get charged anything to up approximately $500 on going to the emergency rooms of private hospitals, I think regardless now of whether you are admitted for an overnight stay or not. Then ambulance cover has largely been heavily reduced (to mostly one call per member per year) and many specialists add on extra fees over and above the private cover payment.
My husband has paid extra fees to specialists and anaesthetists in recent times. You must take ambulance cover separately mostly. I’ve been a private member since I was 17 in top health cover; and am now in my 70s. I am almost too frightened to get ill (as if I had a choice!).
ANDY ALCOCK: I was interested to read the article about Carmen Garcia, the Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Adelaide (Aust dodging asylum responsibility: Lib candidate).
I can understand why her colleagues at Multicultural Youth SA are surprised at her choice of political party. This is expecially so given that the asylum seeker policy of the Liberal Party is as harsh on asylum seekers as the ALP policy.
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Carmen says that her colleagues do not understand the liberal philosophy, but I suspect that they probably do. It seems to me that Carmen is the one who does not seem to understand that the political philosophy of the Liberal Party of Australia is ultra conservatism and has very little to do with liberal political philosophy.
The Liberal Party in Britain was was strongly supportive of the welfare state to ensure that the welfare of all citizens was safeguarded. This is an anathema to the Liberal Party of Australia. I suspect there will be some very lively debates in the party room if she is elected as most of the member of the Liberal party who actually subscribe to liberalism left the party a long time ago.
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