Chapter:
14 - Health
Mover:
John Goss
Seconder:
Heidi Prowse
 
 
Source:
Health Policy Committee
My Private Notes


Preamble
​Health and aged care funding and universal access remain a focus of Labor Governments at all levels at to next elections. Very large rebates and subsidies continue to favour the private system and high-income earners, and it is crucial that Labor Governments, as part of an overall progressive policy program, ensure an equitable funding of public healthcare and aged care across all essential health services. 
General Resolution

Progressive funding of Medicare and aged care

​The ACT Labor Health Policy Committee endorses per Labor's National Platform the importance both of health equity across and between generations, and holds that healthcare access and costs are important to equitable outcomes in retirement, both in the current scope of Medicare and its future expansion to include services like dental.

The Committee calls on the ACT Labor Government and federal Labor together to advance policy that ensures an appropriately progressive application of the Medicare levy, and equal application to personal income from labour or capital, whether in working-age and accumulation phase, or in retirement.