Published: April 10, 2019
The most stressful period of my life was made even more stressful by our welfare system
Waiting to book into my first round of chemotherapy, the registrar said there was some good news: the then NSW premier Mike Baird had got rid of a co-payment for the chemotherapy drug I was about to sign up for.
It was November 2016, and Baird was embroiled in controversy after backflipping on his decision to ban greyhound racing. I would have loved to see greyhound racing banned but, selfishly, Mike inched a few rungs up in my book that day. Is this how the health system worked? Every time you went to settle a bill you were reminded of which politician to thank for each Medicare rebate?
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2KlP7ce
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