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I must ask. Is the human brick's ballot paper logo a football?
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 15:31 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 15:33 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 15:50 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 15:53 |
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The Turnbull government is preparing to trump Labor in the budget by cracking down harder on high-income superannuation tax concessions to raise four times as much as the opposition's policy. Labor has promised to cut the income threshold for more heavily taxing contributions from $300,000 to $250,000. The Coalition now plans to cut it to $180,000.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 16:00 |
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 16:07 |
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Lid posted:The Turnbull government is preparing to trump Labor in the budget by cracking down harder on high-income superannuation tax concessions to raise four times as much as the opposition's policy. Not that I don't agree with this kind of policy, but
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 21:09 |
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Turns out the UPF dudes can't tell the difference between an actual "communist" [sic] music and Hymn for Red October which was composed for a movie.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 22:22 |
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Recoome posted:Turns out the UPF dudes can't tell the difference between an actual "communist" [sic] music and Hymn for Red October which was composed for a movie. None too surprising. I wonder if they realise that public health is a socialist thing and that they are on private health because of that fact.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 23:27 |
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Zenithe posted:Not that I don't agree with this kind of policy, but If a person has reached the preservation age they can access a Transition to Retirement pension and that portion of their assets in the superfund are then proportionally tax free. So yeah don't worry we get the old and rich around these things well enough. I would like to see Labour just say "ok cool we'll do that" just to see the reaction.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 23:28 |
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Lid posted:The Turnbull government is preparing to trump Labor in the budget by cracking down harder on high-income superannuation tax concessions to raise four times as much as the opposition's policy. I hope this leads to a series of one-upmanship until both parties declare they will individually kill each and every rich baby boomer.
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# ? Apr 19, 2016 23:41 |
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Lid posted:The Turnbull government is preparing to trump Labor in the budget by cracking down harder on high-income superannuation tax concessions to raise four times as much as the opposition's policy. Hopefully Labor match it or go one further.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 00:23 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Can an expert on taints confirm if this is true? Yes, it's true about the boar taint and the chemical castration. It's not surprising Coles has reacted badly to it but if people watch videos of piglets getting castrated the old way they might change their views.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 00:25 |
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People should only be able to buy live animals. If you want to eat them you should have to get blood on your hands. quote:http://www.crikey.com.au/2016/04/19/alcohol-domestic-violence-myth/ If we can't blame our problems on booze what can we blame them on?
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 00:43 |
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I just got a Liberal ad on Pandora "The Mining boom is over, it is now time for the innovation boom and the Turnbull government has a plan to invest in the jobs of the future. *upbeat music keeps playing* *blahblahblah authorised by liberal party Canberra.*
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 00:54 |
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Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley says she will not give into a "scare campaign" against a policy to scrap bulk billing incentives for pathologists — even if the plan is due to come into effect the day before the July 2 election. The Opposition and pathologists are fighting against the Federal Government's policy to cut bonus payments it offers for pathology services to bulk bill. But Ms Ley looks set to push on with the changes, despite them being flagged to kick in on July 1. "The Government's made announcements and we'll stick with those announcements," Ms Ley said. "I'm certainly not bending to Labor's scare campaign and our intention is to proceed as planned. "We're running sensible, measured health policy." Policy to 'save $650m over four years' The Federal Government said the policy would save $650 million over four years, but the Opposition and pathologists are muscling up for an election campaign fight. Pathology Australia chief executive Liesel Wett argued the changes could dissuade patients from having medical tests. "This election campaign, we will be doing everything we can to stop the cuts to bulk billing," Ms Wett said. "We're asking all pathology patients to sign up to our campaign and we've got 466,000 patients that have signed our petition because they're saying no to these cuts." Labor, who introduced the incentive in 2009, has described the Government's plan as "medical madness". But Ms Ley said she was not worried about a campaign against the changes in the lead-up to an election poll. "I will be working very hard to explain to the Australian people that the measures that we take are all about patients at the centre," she said. Patients 'will be asked to pay' Ms Wett said scrapping the bulk billing incentive would have consequences. "Patients will be asked to pay, so be charged a co-payment at the time of their pathology test," she said. "Some providers have actually been quite public in stating it could be in addition to $30 per patient." Ms Ley rejected that and said the Government had a responsibility to be productive with taxpayer money. "There is a misinformation campaign happening and what that says is that the $1-3 incentive that has been paid only recently for pathology tests, and is going to be removed, will actually make those pathology providers charge an extra $30," Ms Ley said. "That is ridiculous. "The realities are that we are acting in the interests of a sustainable health system."
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:17 |
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open24hours posted:People should only be able to buy live animals. If you want to eat them you should have to get blood on your hands.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:30 |
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We should always be vigilant when some big vested interest unveils a scare campaign. Can anyone with knowledge of the pathology bulk billing issue weigh in?
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:36 |
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I'm pretty sure making everyone slaughter live cattle in their backyard would lead to some pretty big health/waste issues.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:38 |
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I'd imagine DIY abattoirs would spring up all over the suburbs, like those DIY car washes.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:45 |
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Zenithe posted:I'm pretty sure making everyone slaughter live cattle in their backyard would lead to some pretty big health/waste issues. Not to mention animal welfare issues from people not knowing how to do it properly. Abattoirs aren't great because the emphasis is on efficiency so humane slaughter takes a back seat at times but they are a lot better than millions of cows getting stabbed to death by people with no clue.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:46 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:We should always be vigilant when some big vested interest unveils a scare campaign. Can anyone with knowledge of the pathology bulk billing issue weigh in? All I know is that my wife is having a blood test today and if it cost $30 it'd be a much bigger pain in the arse. Imagine struggling for cash and your bulk-billing GP telling you to go get a bunch of $30 tests
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:50 |
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Anidav posted:"The realities are that we are acting in the interests of a sustainable health system."
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 01:55 |
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Mr Chips posted:So they're going to get rid of the private health insurance rebates, and stop cutting funding for primary health care interventions/research? "a sustainable health system for the rich"
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 02:13 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:We should always be vigilant when some big vested interest unveils a scare campaign. Can anyone with knowledge of the pathology bulk billing issue weigh in? Yeah, so bulk billing for pathology is kind of similar in a way to general practice. Pathology providers can essentially choose from the outset whether they want to bill privately or go with the Medicare Benefits Schedule, and essentially have the government pay for the cost of the test in accordance with the MBS. There are a whole lot of rules, such as coning, which limit the amount of bulk billed tests a GP can request to five (IIRC), there are a whole lot of exceptions, e.g. specialist requests are not constrained by coning rules. I won't go into too much detail on all this stuff. All state labs as far as I know run at a loss, and private bulk billing institutions generally run at a loss for the majority of their testing, and in order to remain profitable / break even they generally need to have assets dedicated to corporate private testing (i.e. drug screenings for FIFO workers) or something else, like veterinary pathology which you can charge anything you want for (there is no kitten MBS equivalent). The 'incentive' is less a "well done for supporting a socialised health system" and more "here have a couple of bucks to recoup some of your losses". I believe eliminating the incentive is likely to put a lot more pressure on bulk billing private pathology to close or go private billing. State pathology service will most likely be knock on effects from the penny counters tightening belts resulting in potentially higher turn around times, fewer jobs in pathology, and an overall decrease in QoS. It does set the stage nicely to introduce co-payment though! No doubt in tandem with a reduction in MBS payment. MysticalMachineGun posted:All I know is that my wife is having a blood test today and if it cost $30 it'd be a much bigger pain in the arse. This is probably unlikely to happen unless the pathology provider is forced to switch to private billing. However, if the powers that be do worm a co-payment through, you would need to cover the costs of testing that wouldn't be covered by the MBS. tl;dr Don't work in pathology it's awful because the government hates you, doctors hate you, patients hate you and you're always broke. Inge fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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Hey at least you don't have to deal with patients.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:13 |
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Sorry for double posting: Just as an example as to how it works for bulk billing - to test for chlamydia (which also tests for gonorrhoea in our method), the reagent cost is roughly $15 per sample. They are run 95 at a time. It takes approximately 5 hours from coding the sample to receiving a result. The two operators are on $37 an hour. Full MBS rebate is $35.85. So for every fully bulk billed test you do, the government pays you $35.85 So with $370 labour total, that works out to about $3.90 per sample. $18.90 per sample to actually perform the test - looks ok with $17 profit... But then there's specimen collection labour and consumables, transport costs, specimen reception labour, analysis labour, reporting and releasing labour, repeat testing, electricity costs (my section of one department does roughly $80,000 a year), and most importantly the capital costs of the validation and development of the assay, the equipment which is hideously expensive, and ongoing costs associated with internal and external quality assurance programmes which are NATA mandated and also hideously expensive. All things considered, we lose about $0.80 per sample, and we do about 300 a day, every day. If that were to blow out to $3 per sample with the removal of incentive, that translates to $6,300 per week and this is on a SINGLE test in ONE SMALL section of a state laboratory doing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TESTS per week. Jumpingmanjim posted:Hey at least you don't have to deal with patients. I am not ungrateful for this. Although mistakes do happen, and when they you have to deal with their lawyers which is arguably much worse. Inge fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Apr 20, 2016 |
# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:30 |
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Yeah, gently caress working in path. Everyone in my student cohort basically just ended up sitting the GAMSAT or becoming teachers.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:35 |
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Inge posted:Sorry for double posting: So the Gold Coast is basically driving you bankrupt?
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Vladimir Poutine posted:Yeah, gently caress working in path. Everyone in my student cohort basically just ended up sitting the GAMSAT or becoming teachers. Man I hate it when they sit the loving GAMSAT.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:53 |
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Jumpingmanjim posted:So the Gold Coast is basically driving you bankrupt? No, One Night Stand did though. (I'm in Perth) Starshark posted:Man I hate it when they sit the loving GAMSAT. Why's that? Inge fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Apr 20, 2016 |
# ? Apr 20, 2016 03:59 |
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https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/722600461472124928 CFMEU thugs at it again
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 04:13 |
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I can't get over the CFMEUs Tapout aesthetic.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 04:23 |
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God forgives, the CFMEU doesn't
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 04:29 |
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Are they sure it wasn't just Glenn Lazarus who fell over?
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 04:57 |
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maybe it was his whole family
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 05:11 |
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Unrelated to brick-chat but I've been reading the comments here, regretted it instantly and thought I'd share.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 05:14 |
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Somewhat related, but our favourite muckraking website Crikey has just updated their website and they have taken down the paywall for a limited time in order to allow the public to beta test and provide feedback. I encourage you all to visit and have a look, because even if you don't end up subscribing, your feedback will make their product better and ensure they can continue to do the Quality Journalism they have been doing lately, especially in a media environment with falling revenue.
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# ? Apr 20, 2016 05:23 |
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The design is so, so bad. Geocities chic will be remembered more fondly than this rubbish.
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