Point number ten calls for:
A dramatic expansion of resources to public health facilities, so that all who need health care will receive it promptly.
This is the long-overdue remedy to one of the most serious public policy problems in Australia today. By starving the hospital system for funds, federal and state governments are presently murdering people. At the Nuremberg war crime trials following World War II, Nazi doctors and government officials were found guilty and hanged for crimes that included, "the inadequate provision for health care". Yet today, in a developed country like Australia, people dying on overblown waiting lists, or because of hospital accidents that happened in an environment of overworked, inadequately supplied staff, is becoming the norm. Forget the fancy jargon and economic theories used to justify government policy—health care is one of the very highest priorities of government, and it must be adequately funded, full stop.
