The attached letter from the Federal Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon, came in response to our statement, circulated earlier (links below). It is, among other things, a reminder that adequate public health funding is an Australia-wide problem, although made worse in Tasmania by the State Government’s decisions as we have outlined in our original statement.
Taken together with the response from the State Minister, it makes disturbing reading. It seems that between the need to balance budgets and the pressure of continuing to provide huge profits for pharmaceutical corporations and the manufacturers of high-tech medical equipment something has to give. The incomes of top level bureaucrats and medical specialists appear to be sacrosanct, so it is nursing staff and other frontline personnel who suffer, along, of course, with patients.
Download:
D11033005_-_Thorne_-_Response.pdf
Tim Thorne
John Biggs
Dr Alison Bleaney
Max Bound
Evelyn de Vito
Rob Kildare
Brenda Rosser
Karl Stevens
• Earlier on Tasmanian Times:
This is unacceptable
What kind of perverse economic reasoning is this?
*Pic: Rob Walls: http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/
