Your views: on health spending and more
Today, readers comment on a commissioned but buried report to cut jobs, services and $154m from SA Health’s budget, close contact voting and political donations.
Commenting on the story: FOI reveals plans to cut $154m from SA Health spending
While I spent several weeks last year in Flinders keeping watch over my mother, I overheard a patient say to a particular nurse, ‘slow down, let the others do some work too’, to which she replied ‘we are all doing this much work’.
You only have to spend a bit of time in one of our hospitals to see how overworked and understaffed they are. It’s disgusting to read of plans to cut the work force, mental health support and ‘elective’ surgery.
Whatever amount of money the government says it’s throwing at health with one hand, it’s not much use if they are taking it away with the other. – Cathy Chua
Playing politics with health is absolutely inappropriate as neither major political party can claim to have done a great job during their respective terms.
Both parties have recognised the need to deliver quality health services in a cost effective manner. However, even after investigating how to reduce the costs of delivering these services, winning the next election heavily influences their appetite to take the appropriate actions.
Nothing will change until there is a holistic approach from the top down, the bureaucrats and medicos get on the same page and break down the silos, an improved culture is established across the department and local health networks, and the public are better educated on utilising the appropriate medical services to meet their needs.
Health is funded by the taxpayers for the taxpayers (and non-taxpayers) and is not funded from a bottomless pit of money. COVID-19 has just made the challenge even greater. – Keith Gillard
Commenting on the story: Close contacts could leave quarantine to vote in SA election
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You can go vote but not visit elderly family members in care. What land are our policy makers living in? – Fiona Barr
Commenting on the story: Political donation sparks call for SA disclosure reform
This quote is very troubling: “… the $12,000 donation was a payment the organisation made each year to both major SA parties as part of a policy to obtain political access to engage on pharmacy-related issues.”
Why should anyone in a social democracy have to pay parties money in order to engage them on issues? For parties to even promote that idea shows why we should be banning party donations of any kind.
For a government to allow it suggests they aren‘t working for the people, just those with financial or political advantage. Take money out of the equation and let’s have politicians who are there for the right reason: service to community free of fear or bias, accessible by all. I’ll vote for that. – Jacob Hodgman
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