Health funding is unsustainable at the present level of escalation.
Tax cuts were aimed at small & mid size businesses who keep the economy growing.
You seem to want everything without any idea how to pay for it.
and you are the problem with discussions around politics. You make assumptions (and wrong ones) rather than engaging in discussion.
To be honest people are a big part of the problem. They expect politicians to do something. If a party leader came out and said we will just fund existing programs and services and projects they would be hammered at the polls. However despite a deficit and supposed budget emergency in 2013 Abbott promised new things which cost money. He also promised no cuts to health which he broke. Then they wonder why people don't believe them when they claim Medicare is safe but have already made cuts to it. See the problem?
Government does not allow private health funds to cover 100% of fees. They can cover 100% of scheduled fee so if a patient goes to a hospital and doctor on the health insurers list then they can get free treatment (after paying their excess). However idea behind private is choice of doctor and choice of hospital. So why would people get private insurance when you still have to fork out money yourself every single time? Before govt put in place regulations stating that health funds could only increase their price once a year then some didn't increase their price every 12 months. Now they all increase it. Add in that many have become for profit businesses. This all drives people to the public system.
Is it affordable? Well actually if we were to stop the indefinite offshore detention and go back to old model then it wouldn't take long to pay off the deficit without hitting the most vulnerable while wealthy get all the breaks.
You say it was aimed at small businesses. However I think you forgot to read the whole story. If it was aimed only at small businesses why did no coalition party member in interviews or election coverage dispute it? The answer is because the policy was that initially it would be small businesses then it would be extended to
ALL bussinesses.
This was supported by independent experts pointing out that many of these companies will (as I said earlier) just have to pay more tax in other countries instead. IRS in the US allows companies to deduct from their tax any tax they have paid here. When the rate drops it means there will be a gap where Australia will be asking for less tax than the US and therefore the difference will have to be paid to the IRS. So the company won't get to keep money.
I have actually suggested to a few people how we could stop the boats. How we could remove people smugglers from the equation. Of course when a political party says they want to stop people drowning at sea they are telling lies that only people who do not want to know the truth would fall for. If people did not still go to sea then we would not be intercepting boats. We would not need to buy ships for another countries navy. Boats may have reduced but they still go to see. Generally they are intercepted in international waters and are turned around.
Howard sold off Telstra and got heaps of money from the mining boom and everyone thought he was some kind of genius and guru. However look at the profits Telstra made before and lately and then tell me how the govt is better off not having access to that money. Selling off an asset is not good unless you get something in return. We got nothing.
Anyway it is good to see that the Liberals have less power in government and will have more accountability to other parties.
