We have one of the highest funded public health systems in the world paid for by our massive taxes and levies
Yes, it is also the case with our education system where billions poured only see end results decline compare to other countries.
Question is not how much spent. but how efficient those funds are used.
We have plenty of capacity to manage a hell of a lot more than we are now
Unfortunately not.
Even with zero covid system is starched beyond limits.
Major hospitals in covid free WA declaring code yellow and unable to admit patients - this is known fact and that is why WA govt just announced $2 bln raft to hospitals and importing 209 doctors from UK and Ireland.
The failure of Australia’s healthcare system isn’t just in being ill prepared for pandemics. In a 9 June
speech at the National Press Club, Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Dr Omar Khorshid described every part of the system as in crisis. He said that waiting times in our hospital emergency departments are the longest they’ve been since 2013, and ambulances are rushing patients to hospital
only to have them wait for hours outside the doors. He spoke of the failures of primary healthcare services (the GPs, pharmacists and so on that are usually people’s first contact point with the health system), which are contributing to billions being spent in hospitals to treat patients with preventable conditions.
The AMA’s
Public Hospital Report Card 2020 found that public hospital beds per 1,000 people over 65 decreased from around 20 in 2008 to 16 in 2018.
In emergency departments, understaffing, a lack of beds and the associated long waiting times are costing lives—such as that of
7-year
-old Aishwarya Aswath, who died at Perth Children’s Hospital on 10 April. Aishwayra's mother tried desperately to get someone to treat her daughter for over two hours while in the emergency waiting area. She died 15 minutes after she was finally seen by a doctor. - that is something you can defiantly expect in Central African Republic but not in first world country.
I can continure on and on with examples...
Again, incorrect. Love your Utopian model.
is DEFINITELY not Utopian. If you haven't experience real life examples of it personally - doesn't mean its not exist, sorry.
Ill just give you example of last country I lived for few years - Korea. All I described above is perfectly real there - fast and efficient. Admitted to hospital twice there.
I can name some more, but you;ll shake your head in disbelieve
I would hardly hold the USA up as a beacon of health success.
not at all. US is even worse then Australia
Overall data doesn't mean a lot
It does, because its only actual numbers and proportions you can really compare with, not just your feelings and expectations.
You lose a lot of credibility by dragging out the "Chinese Virus" line.
wow! that is unexpected!
I am sorry, but I do not much care about my credibility to you or anyone else to be honest.
If you don't like simple reference to particular place where things happened and tend to exaggerate it to something bigger - I cant help with this (
I would be very surprised if we didn't see things soften off at the end of August
Agree, coz level of public compliance will degrade so much following 9 weeks in lockdown that things will soften by itself anyway. They simply dont have choice other then admit inevitable.
locking the state down to make up for government failures is simply not a reasonable response.
It is reasonable but only for the time they can maintain it efficient. And it is not long!
I'll definitely jump on board for a good government bash, The bash is "why has government failed to apply a clear, fact based and logical national plan".
and plan on big scale should be nothing else then fund research of Australia's own vaccine and overhaul national healthcare in preparation for future variants and pandemics.
