As it's more than 100 days now, it has been suggested that a new thread was needed. The current govt has been breaking promises and telling lies at a rate so fast it's hard to keep up.
This below is worrying, "independent" pffft, as if your own doctor is somehow what? biased, it's ridiculous. So far there is talk of only including people under a certain age 30-35, for now. Remember that if your injured in a car, injured at work or get ill, you too might need to go on the DSP. They have done a similar think in the UK with devastating consequences.
and this is the 2nd time recently where the Govt has referred to work as welfare???? So when you go to work tomorrow (or tuesday), just remember that's welfare.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-20/disability-pensioners-may-be-reassessed-kevin-andrews/5400598
Independent doctors could be called in to reassess disability pensioners, Federal Government says
The Federal Government is considering using independent doctors to examine disability pensioners and assess whether they should continue to receive payments.
Currently family doctors provide reports supporting claims for the Disability Support Pension (DSP).
But Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews is considering a measure that would see independent doctors reassess eligibility.
"We are concerned that where people can work, the best form of welfare is work," Mr Andrews said at a press conference.
Paints, snap - oh look graphs yaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaayippppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
this govt just can't stop lying, the msm refuse to challenge their porkies so it's up to others to expose their lies.
http://www.glennmurray.com.au/medicares-growth-isnt-out-of-control-its-actually-slowing/
this post will upset the morman but 
, the sources used for the graphs are on the link and there is a lot more.
Medicare’s growth rate in context
Firstly, let’s look at Medicare expenditure as a percentage of GDP and tax revenue.
The red line shows us that Medicare expenditure is growing more slowly than our tax revenue, and at almost the same rate as our GDP.
Now let’s take a look at the actual rates of growth. The below graph shows Medicare’s growth rate – the purple line. E.g. From 2003-04 to 2004-05, Medicare spending increased by 15%. And from 2004-05 to 2005-06, it increased by 10%. That’s the metric Ley’s talking about when she says “growing”. I’ve also included growth rates for the other measures for comparison (GDP, tax revenue, and so on).
This confirms what we saw in the first graph: That everything is still growing. GDP, tax revenue, health expenditure and Medicare expenditure are all still increasing. So no surprises there.
It also shows that, at the moment, everything’s increasing at about the same rate: Between 2.28% and 5.45%. (Sure, that’s still a difference, but it’s nothing like what was going on in 2008, when tax revenues decreased due to the GFC and health expenditure was increasing at its fastest rate since 2002.)
And it shows that the rates of increase have settled down and drawn closer together. There seems to be less volatility.
Importantly, we can again see that, at the moment, Medicare is growing more slowly than our tax revenue, and only slightly faster than our GDP.
But it’s when you look at the overall trend of the lines that you see the real lie in our Health Minister’s words. Because the trend tells us about the ongoing growth rate, and it’s this that she says is “rapid and unsustainable”.
The rate of growth is slowing… for everything
He is the biggest LIAR of anyone in Australia. Tony Abbott has hurt more Australians in 16 months than anyone in Australia's history imo.
Tony Abbott is the laziest, bludging, leaning, incompetent, good for absolutely NOTHING Australian I have ever had the misfortune to have as a supposed 'leader' imo.
Name one 'good' thing this waste of space has done for someone else that benefited that person or someone else or a group of people? ONE thing?
