Stephen Duckett
speaker
921 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2006
last heard May 2019
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What we said in our report was this five hundred dollars, $1,000 cap might be only a few years as you get the scheme established, because over time what the health insurance funds have done is that they have service related caps.
So you know you can only have so many visits over
for a two year period or over a one year period.
And that is a better way of doing it in our view, but we you we don't have the mechanism, we don't have the ability to cost that at this stage.
So we just ported across the caps and arrangements from the Comor the existing child dental benefit scheme.
agree with Rachel.
The the regulation.
Well I I'll try and work out something to disagree, but the the regulatory environment for the private health insurance funds is just antideluvian.
It really hasn't been updated for twenty, thirty years in in any real sensible way.
Just to give you one example, the health insurance funds are required to pay for every arthroscopy of the knee that is done, whether it there's any evidence that arthroscopy of
The knee for osteoarthritis works.
So they have no ability to address questionable care of overservicing and so on.
And it seems to me that we've got to be able to say, if we're going to be tightening up on the health insurance funds in terms of their cost structures and all that sort of stuff, we've got to say to them, well, you're going to have to stand a bit more on your own two feet.
And so in order for you to
To be able to do that, you've got to have less regulation, more ability to negotiate with public and private hospitals and prosthesis manufacturers and so on, and so be much more agile and much more up to date in what we're expecting of how we're going to control you.
Yes, I well it it doesn't surprise me.
Obviously there are electorates at play in Queensland where uh sugar is important.
But I think what we're beginning to see I think last at the press club speeches, Labour announced its prevention policy of one hundred and fifteen million, I think it was, of prevention initiatives.
And Liberals have also done something on obesity recently as well.
So we're more or less coming to the end of the campaign.
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