{"id":35061,"date":"2025-09-22T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=35061"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T06:35:19","slug":"pensioners-will-get-smashed-and-lose-care-while-minister-rae-hides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/pensioners-will-get-smashed-and-lose-care-while-minister-rae-hides\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioners will get smashed and lose care while Minister Rae hides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-09-22\/older-australians-to-pay-for-showers-under-home-care-changes\/105796118?utm_source=abc_news_app&amp;utm_medium=content_shared&amp;utm_campaign=abc_news_app&amp;utm_content=other\"><u>Older Australians will pay up to $50\/hour for basic care at home<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;under Labor\u2019s aged care changes coming on November 1 according to reporting from the ABC based on Department of Health data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Older Australians will be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/greens.org.au\/news\/media-release\/aged-care-woes-continue-older-australians-new-royal-commission-report-smashes\"><u>forced to forgo the care they need due to cost<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister for Aged Care Sam Rae and Minister for Health and Ageing Mark Butler reportedly declined to be interviewed in the ABC\u2019s story and would not answer direct questions. The government has previously admitted 30% of full pensioners and 75% of part pensioners would pay more under Labor\u2019s changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labor have been desperate to hide the true impacts of their aged care policies. It took a Senate inquiry and weeks of pressure just to get straight answers on the true nature of the aged care waitlist, with over 200,000 older Australians waiting for care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those revelations eventually lead to the Government\u2019s first defeat in the Senate as a successful push from the Greens, crossbench and opposition led to the urgent release of 20,000 home care packages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> Greens spokesperson for Older People, Senator Penny Allman-Payne:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnder Labor\u2019s Aged Care Act the worse your health, the more you\u2019ll pay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor have been keeping older people in the dark about these changes since they passed last year, but it&#8217;s becoming clearer by the day that these changes aren\u2019t about improving care, only about propping up private providers profits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens tried to remove co-payments when the bill came through parliament last year and we were the only ones to oppose the new laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Aged Care Minister Sam Rae needs to stop hiding, come clean about how much he expects older people will pay under the new system and how many people are going to miss out on care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOlder Australians should be able to access the care they need, not just the care they can afford.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor\u2019s bleeding pensioners dry while giving tax-dodging corporations a pass.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older Australians will pay up to $50\/hour for basic care at home&nbsp;under Labor\u2019s aged care changes coming on November 1 according to reporting from the ABC based on Department of Health data. Older Australians will be&nbsp;forced to forgo the care they need due to cost. Minister for Aged Care Sam Rae and Minister for Health &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/pensioners-will-get-smashed-and-lose-care-while-minister-rae-hides\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pensioners will get smashed and lose care while Minister Rae hides&#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-35061","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\/35061","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=35061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35062,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35061\/revisions\/35062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}