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BUDGET CONFIRMS HOWARD’S DISRESPECT FOR THE VIEWS OF THE PEOPLE
“Tonight’s budget confirms that the Howard Government doesn’t really want to listen to the Australian people who have repeatedly indicated that health and education services are more important than tax cuts,” said Dr Tim Woodruff, President, Doctors Reform Society
“This is disrespect bordering on arrogance from a Government which repeatedly claims to represent the battler,” said Dr Woodruff. “The battlers we doctors see are faced by more and more costs for services which this Government should be funding but refuses to. Our hospitals are bleeding but nothing is done. Out of pocket costs for GPs, prescriptions, x-ray, pathology, and specialists continue to rise but the best that is offered is a saggy safety net. Medicare is dying the death of a thousand cuts.”
“Instead the Government ignores the people and hopes that they can buy votes with one off payments to carers and tax cuts which will be gobbled up paying all the extra costs of services the Government should be providing. This is showing contempt for the people.
“Even their best efforts on Aged Care are inadequate, showing just how keen they are not to give adequate tax support for services, but rather to force the desperate to find money in their pockets in their later years.”
“It makes no sense”, said Dr Woodruff, “unless, like John Howard, you don’t really care about the battlers, and you are so contemptuous of voters you believe they can be conned by this deception.”
Dr Tim Woodruff
President
Doctors Reform Society
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Dr Con Costa
Vice President
Doctors Reform Society
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Dr Tracy Schrader Vice President Doctors Reform Society
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