I can’t believe this government subsidy to private enterprise is so popular on a libertarian forum.

How much of your ‘private’ medical care is actually paid by your
insurance company from your PHI premiums, Don?

There is notrue private healthcare in this country.

The issue is the proportion of private hospital beds utiliised vrersus public.

The last time Labor were in charge only ~33% of people had PHI.
Thanks to Howard that is now well above 40%.

I wonder what it will be after Labor’s latest cynical take?

Do you believe the government can afford to purchase the extra number of public hospital beds or do you think they cynically don’t care and want to do anything to push their tricky accounting into the ‘black’ next year and they don’t care after that ‘cos they won’t be in government to deal with the mess that will ensue from this measure?

Do you think the leftist cliueless drone Tanya Plibersek enjoys demagoguery?

Who are the elitists here?

Do you get tired with the blinkers permanently on Don?

Before a manuscript is transmitted to UCP, all negotiations between the journal office, peer reviewers, and authors with regard to its content, organization, etc. must have been resolved.

That would seem to suggest that there is a peer-review process.

Really, Sinclair? It would suggest to me the opposite. UCP is saying that any peer review process for a manuscript finishes before submission to UCP. The obvious conclusion is that there are no peer review negotiations once it has been submitted to UCP, and that UCP does not run any peer review process relating to the manuscript.

From a pro-life standpoint, trading contraception for abstinence and a “culture of life” was a net loss.

Mr’s Steve. you can purchase condoms in a gas station in the US. You’re a bigger clown that your mate Don.

Medical insurance should be for medical reasons. And that not only excludes contraception (I wouldn’t count abortion for medical reasons as contraception) but also homeopathy and other sorts of alternative claptrap.

The whining I hear is from people wanting subsidized health insurance. I don’t understand your logic JC.

You mean people shouldn’t complain when a government tries to take away a tax break? That’s not whining you fool, that’s a legitimate grievance.

You’re the one doing all the whining about the shitty stuff you get and don’t need. As I said either do away with the insurance if you don’t like or go choose another carrier, you dipshit.

It isn’t a tax break because it has no relation to your income – it is a discount on a private insurance policy. It even gets paid via a directly discounted premium.

Of course it’s a tax break, you moron. Only people that pay taxes can receive the break. If you don’t pay taxes you don’t get, so it’s a tax break.

Seriously, you have to have a higher IQ to be posting here or you’ll end up getting eaten alive.

I have a policy with essentially no cover just to dodge the tax.

I really don’t give a rats what kind of cover you have. That’s your problem.

But the government rebate is paid to many who claim all they can on dubious services – subsidized by me, the taxpayer.

Dickhead, You’re not subsidizing me or anyone else as we all have to pay taxes to get the fucking rebate.

You really don’t fucking get it do you.

And another thing, its not as though the money is being returned to us. It’s going to be pissed against the wall like the union clerks have pissed all other money against the wall.

I can’t believe this government subsidy to private enterprise is so popular on a libertarian forum.

Stop calling it a subsidy you fucking clown, it’s a tax break and a tax break isn’t better than lower tax rates, but that isn’t what is being offered.

Using you logic that this is subsidy, then let the rich stop subsidizing da poor. In this country no one should nbot be able to earn their keep unless they are severely, severely handicapped. And no, depression is not a handicap.

You are too fucking stupid to be posting here, Don, you clown.

And has for the hackneyed ‘austerity’ meme, reducing the rate of growth in expenditure is a pretty strange definition of ‘austerity’.