Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - speaking at the Council of Australian Governments ( COAG ) conference - stated that " Health is too important to get it wrong ".
It is also far too important to be left in limbo !
When Mr Rudd was seeking election he promised that if the state's didn't get their act together and improve the public health and hospital system - the Federal government would move to take them over nationally.
The states did not improve the health system - and the Federal government has not moved on a takeover - despite Mr Rudd now being in office for over two years !
Health can be described as a bottomless money pit. Costs are ever increasing as the scope for healing improves - and it is evident that this has moved far outside the capacity of the states to provide adequate funds.
The only organization with sufficiently deep pockets is the Federal government, and if we are to have a decent national health system it will have to come from the public purse - and be paid for by our Federal taxes.
We may not like the tax impost that will be necessary to fund health Federally, but the only alternative is to see health stumbling along on it's present course, woefully underfunded and subject to the wide disparity of control by individual states.
Health is literally a matter of life or death !
Time the Federal government ceased procrastination - and made the only decision possible !
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