If you want private health insurance go for it but don’t ask me to pay my hard earned taxes to rebate you by 30%. Should I ask the people of this country to pay their taxes and give me 30% of my aircraft insurance? I think not!
Golow,
I really do feel like giving you a severe berrating over this, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt, because you are probably naive about such matters.
Let me explain. My wife and I pay $3552 for private health cover, so we get a $1056 discount of our taxes each year.
My wife and I pay around $7940 or more each year in Medicare Levy.
So, if you want it that way, I don't want the taxpayers paying my medical insurance at all, but I will be farkked if I am paying the $8K PA as well, nope I would be far better off if I had that money invested each year. The Dr's and hospitals could charge me full cop and I would be better off self insured.
So now take your small minded short term thinking and apply this across the country.
Golow, I generally do not mind paying higher taxes to live in this country, and to look after the pensioners etc, but it is small minded morons like you that I really hate subsidising. Wake up lad.
Here is some interesting reading.
In summary, the Report found that as a consequence of means-testing the 30% Rebate:
- 1.6 million Australians will exit their private hospital cover (compared to Treasury estimates of only 25,000), with a further 4.3 million downgrading their level of cover;
- Private health insurance premiums will rise 10 per cent above what would otherwise be expected, making private cover less affordable for all Australians; and
- Pressure on the public hospital system will increase as more than 845,000 additional treatments will be required as people withdraw from their private cover at an estimated cost to government of $3.8 billion.
Impact of Means Testing the 30% Rebate | You Should Know
Now what has aircraft insurance got to do with this? When the government legislate compulsory aircraft insurance on ALL taxpayers...............nahhh just too stupid to continue,
You need a few years to grow up a little before you can argue this debate.
Here is a comical but true fact of life for you.
Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front yard, my
neighbors stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their
dog.
During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter
what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be
Prime Minister some day.
Both of her parents – Socialist Labor- were standing there, so I
asked her, "If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing
you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed with pride!
"Wow! what a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until
you're Prime Minister to do that!" I told her.
"What do you mean?" she replied.
So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull
weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you $50. Then you can go over
to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can
give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight
in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do
the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"
I said, "Welcome to the Liberal Party."