Colonel Hanson declares "war" on hospital waiting lists

HenryBG said :

peitab said :

Hey Zed, what about showing the electorate some respect by releasing your health policy more than three days out? After all, you’ve had 11 years to develop one, but it looks like you cobbled this together over the last day or two.

I’d say any old cobbled-together Health policy is almost guaranteed to provide an improvement over the fraud and incompetence of the current mob’s.

Tell me about it, just the other day I went to ED with an ingrown toe-nail and had to wait 8 hours just to see a doctor .. Total incompetence!

peitab said :

Also, I’m p*ssed off that such a major policy has only been announced three days out from the election. According to the CT, Zed Sesleja has defended this by saying, in relation to the amount of time allowed for Treasury to run the costings, “There’s not a moratorium on announcing policies in the last week”.

Hey Zed, what about showing the electorate some respect by releasing your health policy more than three days out? After all, you’ve had 11 years to develop one, but it looks like you cobbled this together over the last day or two.

I should also say, my annoyance also extends to any other party releasing policies so late.

I’d say any health-related policies announced today – by any side – are probably due to the CT poll showing the sample rated health issues highest, then education. You’ll notice Labor also announced a (small) health policy today too….
Anyway, I now await a few rushed education policies today/tomorrow!
Hahahaha!

peitab said :

Hey Zed, what about showing the electorate some respect by releasing your health policy more than three days out? After all, you’ve had 11 years to develop one, but it looks like you cobbled this together over the last day or two.

I’d say any old cobbled-together Health policy is almost guaranteed to provide an improvement over the fraud and incompetence of the current mob’s.

Also, I’m p*ssed off that such a major policy has only been announced three days out from the election. According to the CT, Zed Sesleja has defended this by saying, in relation to the amount of time allowed for Treasury to run the costings, “There’s not a moratorium on announcing policies in the last week”.

Hey Zed, what about showing the electorate some respect by releasing your health policy more than three days out? After all, you’ve had 11 years to develop one, but it looks like you cobbled this together over the last day or two.

I should also say, my annoyance also extends to any other party releasing policies so late.

We’re going to need more than 5,500 extra elective surgeries over the next four years.

Numbers released yesterday by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that in the ACT, 11,362 surgeries were removed from the elective surgery waiting list for the reason that the surgeries were conducted in 2011-12. Over the same 12 months, 13,314 surgeries were added to the elective surgery waiting list.

If this trend continues over the next four years (and there’s no real reason to suspect it won’t), we’ll need 8,000 more elective surgeries to maintain the elective surgery waiting list at its current length.