{"id":2302,"date":"2019-04-15T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:02:22","slug":"bill-shortens-health-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/bill-shortens-health-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Shorten&#039;s Health Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Shorten has been caught again with funding black holes in his supposed health promises.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s offering the states a new health agreement claiming it will increase funding to 50-50.<br \/>\nBut he\u2019s gone and spent the money.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s another health hoax from Labor and this time it\u2019s the states who are being conned.<br \/>\nShorten announced the $2.8 billion in last year\u2019s Budget in Reply speech.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s now spending the money with no connection to a new funding agreement.<br \/>\nSo where will the supposed new state money come from? Daniel Andrews is wasting taxpayers money lobbying for more funding, only to be conned by Bill Shorten.<br \/>\nThis revelation comes on top of the funding black hole in Labor\u2019s phoney \u201cfree\u201d cancer promise which ignores the 421 Medicare items that relate to cancer. Indeed these are just the exclusively and predominantly cancer related items with many more general items that are not included but which can be used in the course of a cancer treatment.<br \/>\nExamples of the 421 items which are attached include:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Item 15,338 &#8211; Prostate, radioactive seed implantation of, radiation oncology component, using transrectal ultrasound guidance, for localised prostatic malignancy at clinical stages t1 (clinically inapparent tumour not palpable or visible by imaging) or t2 (tumour confined within prostate), with a gleason score of less than or equal to 7 and a prostate specific antigen (psa) of less than or equal to 10ng\/ml at the time of diagnosis. The procedure must be performed at an approved site in association with a urologist. Schedule Fee $935.60.<\/li>\n<li>Item 15,524 &#8211; Radiation Dosimetry by a CT interfacing planning computer for megavoltage or teletherapy radiotherapy to 3 or more areas, or by mantle fields or inverted Y fields or tangential fields or irregularly shaped fields using multiple blocks, or offaxis fields, or several joined fields. Schedule Fee $637.35.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBased on the range of cancer items matched to the Australian Medical Association\u2019s table of recommended fees there would be a cost of $6.8 billion over four years.<br \/>\nHowever Chris Bowen has been caught out saying it will be for a single \u2018new Medicare item\u2019 (Bowen, Radio National 15 April 2019), while Catherine King says it\u2019s for a number of \u2018new Medicare items\u2019 and concedes \u2018we\u2019ve got some work to do\u2019 (King, doorstop 15 April 2019).<br \/>\nThis is policy on the run and a cruel hoax on cancer patients.<br \/>\nAnd the proposal of funding for elective surgery for the states is a re-hash of a previous failed Labor Government program which was abandoned.<br \/>\nLabor has not been honest with patients, it\u2019s not being honest with the states and it\u2019s not being honest with the Australian people.<br \/>\nBill Shorten\u2019s track record in health is to stop listing medicines because of financial mismanagement.<br \/>\nThe Morrison Government has increased hospital funding by $6.3 billion in the budget, is delivering record bulk billing and investing in breakthrough research and medicines to protect and save lives.<br \/>\nIf you can\u2019t manage the economy you can\u2019t manage health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Shorten has been caught again with funding black holes in his supposed health promises. He\u2019s offering the states a new health agreement claiming it will increase funding to 50-50. But he\u2019s gone and spent the money. It\u2019s another health hoax from Labor and this time it\u2019s the states who are being conned. Shorten announced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/04\/15\/bill-shortens-health-hoax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Shorten&#039;s Health Hoax&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}