Greens Dental Plan

At last - this is so badly need by low income older people. If only the other parties cared about health and teeth of older Aussies.

The Australian Greens have announced a $4.3 billion universal dental care plan.

The Denticare scheme aims to improve general health by reducing dental waiting lists and providing access to basic care for low income earners.

Greens Senator Christine Milne says poor oral health is costing the health system millions of dollars per year. "At the moment, people can't afford to get their teeth fixed and so they leave them and they they get infections and end up in the emergency department of hospitals and often end up actually hospitalised," she said.

"Something like 30,000 people in Australia a year are hospitalised because of the failure to be able to look after their teeth."

This is an excellent initiative of the Greens. They've got my vote.

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fwed A vote for the Greens is a vote for Labor.

If Labor gets in with Greens holding balance of power, look out for all the way out thing coming

in as law, then don't grizzle about it.





jessej



You are able to choose your own preferences

Seth, it is just that of late there doesn't seem to have been any real answers from either side--



I agree planB, It's just my black sense of humour.



I watched a film, 'Swing Vote' where voting for an American president

came down to one vote, both candidates promised the world to get

the vote, you had the conservative becoming socialist and the

socialist becoming conservative, each promising the world, at the

same time blaming the other for all the debt and that they were

the only one who can fix the economy,

Does all that remind you of anything??

It sure does Seth--it would be nice if they were able to pull together for the benefit of all

fwed A vote for the Greens is a vote for Labor.

If Labor gets in with Greens holding balance of power, look out for all the way out thing coming

in as law, then don't grizzle about it.





jessej



It is always pleasant to read of the impending doom that will descend upon

us all if labor wins,

jessej should get a medal for bringing it to our notice.

If it wasn't for brilliant minded people who only have the interest

of us simple minded pensioners at heart and only too willing to give us their

advice I just don't know what we would do.

jesse knowing you are fair minded whom should we vote for?



Is it alright to vote for the Taliban??

You can however choose to vote for who you want if you are willing to number everyone--which I will do



so do I but with black biro just to make sure no one can alter my vote!



Pencil too easy to rub out.



Plus all states have gov dental plans - and if you have an emergency toothache can get it seen too quicky - but for the whole initial treatment and what needs to be done - wait is years and in Tassie all the dentists are from overseas and usually first step on the ladder given permanent residence and family too for a contract after which they can go on to get their masters or whatever to open private clinic.



Here Labor got into office in 1998 and still in and in their first year reduced the number of dentists to 11 from over 40 and made adults travel to 3 centres instead of community centre - but children still seen in these - their teeth good - adults so bad that Buddhist dentists from the mainland do a free bee now and then to try to help out. Also emergency dentists few and far between - say patients are abusive and the fee is not worth it.

Oh yes I always take the Biro Val

Thought you would - not so daft you! Canny even. Bet you never get caught out by the scammers either!



Dont forget to tune into ACA tonight - age pensioners divorcing - maybe due to being done down so badly by Labor worse than singles were.

John was in the fertilized egg business.



He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets,' and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.



He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.



This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.



Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.



Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.



John's favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch's bell hadn't rung at all!



When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.



To John's amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring.



He'd sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.



John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Saint Lawrence County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.



The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the "No Bell Piece Prize," but they also awarded him the "Pulletsurprise" as well.



Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.



Vote carefully on August 21, the bells are not always audible.











































































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Thanks planB, gave me a chuckle on this cold morning,

The bells ring louder the older you get.

No good sneaking up, by the time you get there, you've forgotten why.

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