Steve Baxter

So therefore, we have another problem.

Yeah.

I'm pretty sure.

It wouldn't surprise me, yeah.

So therefore, now these changes come into place, I'm sure we do, to be quite blunt.

So who loses here?

And I've always said, I mentioned this in a couple of other places, the NDIS, when I first started,

back in 2014, I think it was, when it was first proposed, or when I first, I can't remember exactly when, but it was back in the early teens anyway.

And I did, I want to understand what 14, because it was supposed to be $14 billion was going to be spent on NDIS and on 400,000 families in Australia with profoundly disabled children.

Okay, so I didn't know what $14 billion meant.

So I went to the – I looked at a similar program, which is the PBS Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, which is a cheap medicines program, which back then was $8.9 billion, of which every household in Australia got benefits from.

And I'm like, right.

And that was 10 million households, $8.9 billion, 400,000 households, $14 billion.

I'm like, there's something wrong here.

And I did a LinkedIn post and got called an evil person who hates disabled kids, you know.

Of course you did.

Yeah.

So it's a hard program to attack.

But, okay, let's assume that there was some level of electoral support for it back then, $14 billion in 2014 numbers.

Give it a cap, adjust it for inflation, play it forward, it'd be probably $21 billion instead of the $55, $60 billion it currently is.