The Budget
What do you think of the leaked proposal to bring more nurses into the system?
[i]EVERY doctor's practice in the country will get its own nurse to help treat patients, make home visits, write prescriptions and co-ordinate follow-up care, under a medical revolution in tomorrow's federal Budget. Each GP will be eligible for $25,000, worth up to $75,000 a year to a three-doctor practice, enough to hire a full-time nurse.
The nurses will lead a revolution in healthcare, teaching patients with chronic problems like diabetes and heart disease how to manage their conditions, dressing wounds, and carrying out asthma tests and vaccinations. They will also carry out pap smears, test blood sugar and cholesterol and co-ordinate follow-up care with specialists and health carers.[/i]
As I've said before, I'm not worried about the big tax on miners, I think they should pay dearly for their huge profits which go out of the country. But it looks like Rudd has made a bobo with the big miners regarding the 40 per cent tax on their profits, he didn't check with the states first about abolishing mining royalties - he said they'd all get a refund on their state-based royalties. But rogue WA Premier Colin Barnett has said he's planning to raise the royalty rate for iron ore to 7.5 per cent by July next year. Understandably, mining companies now fear being hit with a "double whammy".