“If Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison want to claim that Australians are on waiting lists for elective surgery, are unable to get the care they need because of refugees getting treatment, that is just fearmongering,” Senator Keneally told Sky News on Friday.
“What they need to acknowledge is that if Australians are on waiting lists, it’s because the Liberals have cut hospital funding, they have frozen Medicare rebates, they have presided over the decimation of the health system.”In 2016–17, 695 public hospitals provided 62,000 hospital beds – around 2.5 public hospital beds for every 1000 people, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Those figures have remained relatively consistent since 2012-13, rising by an average of 1.5 per cent per year.During roughly that same time period, the number public hospitals around Australia decreased, while numbers of private hospitals increased, according to the AIHW.AIHW“Public hospitals can accommodate the health needs of asylum seekers without disadvantaging anyone,” it wrote on Twitter.
This is a baseless claim. Public hospitals can accommodate the health needs of asylum seekers without disadvantaging anyone. St Vincent’s is happy to make its hospitals available to provide care to asylum seekers without affecting waiting lists.
The thing that is disrupting healthcare in Australia is not enough fucking funding from the Federal government to the states.
North Queensland health freely provides medical treatment for some of our northern neighbours whilst the continuous drain on our resources by economic refugee impacts.
Obviously Morrison doesn't understand what Triage is. When you're at the hospital, how would you know who is ahead or behind you in line. Do you even care? Are they going to shout 'Incoming Asylum Seeker!!' as a warning? This is blatant scaremongering.
This is a ridiculous claim. What about the strain placed by visa overstayers? LNP in their desperation are peddling lies to stave off, they hope, imminent defeat.
tantrum goes on. Ohh boy!!!
Is this one of those 'If a butterfly flaps its wings, it can cause a hurricane' arguments? Sounds like one...
Lies, Lies, Lies... This is a Trumpian Government.
Scott Morrison is wrong. How few hundreds refugees can disrupt millions of aussies healthcare?
BREAKING ScottMorrisonMP will say anything loony to anyone who listens. He believes in unicorns that can heal terminally ill people, provided they follow the happy clappy brainwash he subjects his children and the nation to. He's unfit to raise kids, let alone lead a country.
Bullshit!
Bullshit
According to the Bureau of Statistics there were 309,142 births in 2017. Ladies, plug up your vaginas, according to ScottMorrisonMP our heath care system can't take much more...
How narrow minded PM do we have?! We need a PM for our country with an open mind and warm heart.
Seriously Scott.........is that all you've got?
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He’s clutching at straws on that one ! The LNP has never cared about public health or education. Their policies are based on looking after the top end of town . Cutting penalty rates, cutting taxes for the rich and protecting franking . Why the sudden interest in health needs ?
Oh what's this more positive feedback go lnp not long now 😂😂😂😂
Laughing 🤣
We all know ScoMo is Desperate, but the more he talks this Rubbish shows what a Fool he is!
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ScottMorrisonMP Wrong
Dog whistles R Us. lnpdna
Lies
Umm how?
No wonder you're going down at the next electionMorrison
Scomo the scare mongerer
failedmarketeer ScottMorrisonMP is very consistent and reliable. Consistently dishonest, cruel and arrogant, he can be relied upon to stoop as low as needs be to to retain power, committing human rights abuse and protecting corrupt politicians. FedICAC LNPcriminalregime
And who directly at a national level funds the health sector exactly?.... oh the LiberalAus well stop giving your mates tax payers money and put it where it's needed
The long bow drawn back as a perfect excuse to destroy Medicare which is what the neo-fascist LNP have always wanted to do anyway.
Serial LNP liar.
Scott Morrisson has claimed the earth is flat.
This is finding the dog whistle covered in muck in the gutter and giving it a good blow without even wiping it first. I hope that you choke on that dog whistle you sociopathic grubs. dogwhistle auspol Election2019 ScottMorrisonMP
Just determined to lose the next election ScottMorrisonMP 🤦🏻♀️
Why the hell were ppl put in off-shore rorting deals with corrupt officials at great expense to the TaxPayer. Govt tells us processing takes ages. FFS,yr Govt mobilised masses of Centrelink ppl plus with TheNTIntervention in v short time but U couldn’t do so 4 Refs?! AusPol
A bushfire puts pressure on hospitals does that then collapse the medical system to it's knees. Christian PM is the most evil man
Get your House in order Scott Morrison! You’ve spent hundreds of thousands of OUR-that’s right, your Country’s Citizens -$$$ on your rortingCronies jobsForTheBoys DodgyDealsDoneDirtCheap which could have gone to our HealthSystem & this whole OffShoreRefugee thing is OTT $$$
And this has been totally refuted by StVHealthAust . Who would know a million times more about the subject than this hot air merchant.
Shame on them. No wonder every half decent MP is retiring. All last shreds of humanity and honesty are gone. And the Liberals are now a fringe party canvassing for the extremist vote....,
What a grub
More scaremongering from the PM and his henchmen.
Big Bad Sco is on the election war path... you can feel his paranoia
Check these comments ScottMorrisonMP
stopthefear
If a handful of sick asylum seekers disrupt the healthcare system of one of the most advanced nations on the planet, perhaps this government is doing a shitty job of managing their health portfolio.
Bullshit.
Shame. Decent Australians will always ensure others who need help receive help on and off shore. We are a compassionate people snd we will be proud again soon. iFECCA Mo_Alkhafaji ianrsmith65
Here's some simple math: $8b/yr generated through 1000% tax on tobacco, minus $150m/yr on smoker-related medical costs = a shit load of money for things like this.
ScottMorrisonMP does your religion have confession? Fair dinkum (power) you must be in the confessional box every 3 hours with the amount of pork pies you are telling!
What a complete and utter twt ! It’s time this fearmongering unethical behaviour is punished resign quit politics
Just stop the lying, Aussies are not as dumb as tRump supporters SCUMMO!
Translation | Prime Minister Scott Morrison, defeated, falsely claims the medevac bill could disrupt the healthcare options of Australian citizens.
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Of course it will. The impact on the health and welfare systems in Australia will be enormous. Every alleged refugee with a runny nose will be brought here for treatment and will be prioritised. And the diseases they will carry wil put pressure on everybody. That is a fact.
The very type of arguments Hitler used that Jewish people took jobs away from Germans after World war one, so another Nazi tactic from a Fascist political party, they say history repeats itself because no one was listening the first time. Scott Morrison if the cap fits wear it.
This is an outrageous direct threat by the PM to rise fear in the bogan and in human rights, like if human rights seem to only apply to the privileged and those that don’t disrupt our daily lives immensely; evil.
Seriously, why bother ScottMorrisonMP. We all know this is moronic
No, no, not his partys budget cuts to health, but refugees 😂😂😂 feardinkum People actually believe his horseshit lies
For God's sake, there's only a 1,000 or so. We aren't that hopeless Scumo shit head.
Everytime a politician opens thier mouth out pours verbal diarrhea, sack your media advisors and try the truth.
The bill was unnecessary since processes are in place re health care. Though, there ought to be more audits & a committee to review all govt contracts, their efficacy, adherence to laws, etc... More transparency to ensure contract costs aren't inflated & fraud's not committed.
Liar. What a C. I despise the ground this evangelist right wing fundamentalist pos walks on
Probably should’ve argued and proven that point in the Parliament at the time. Not a scare campaign for an election. ScottMorrisonMP auspol
And yet we have been repeatedly told what a high level of medical care they have been receiving. Feet either side of the fence... give me a break from this bs.
What a joker! Comments are going from bad to worse!! But then it is our fault for listening to this fool!!!
He should just come out and say 'Build The Wall'.
Now I am almost convinced they want to lose the election. Surely they don't think Australians are this stupid?
Horseshit, healthcare is a State program, not a Commonwealth concern, beyond the annual CHOGM funding round
Bullshit.
Liar.
Of course it will, just as bureacrats have started pushing australian citizens out of public housing to accomodate refugees.
Who would believe this tripe? Scaremongering at it's finest
Silly
More baseless scaremongering from the unelected, fascist, Bible-bashing, acting, acting (yes - two separate meanings) Prime Sinister.
Bullshit...
liars and more liars you can trust these guys as far as you can throw them
But everybody knows that once again Scott Morrison is lying! In fact refugees are a vital part of the Australian healthcare system and our hospitals couldn't operate without them. auspol refugees
crap The Nauruan Government has banned medical assessment by video link, so Phelp's's bill is dead in the water
Bullshit.
I guess he figured his attempts at being a moderate didn't shift the polls, and being a piece of human garbage worked for Tony Abbott.
ScottMorrisonMP out healthcare is crap anyways even Thailand has better care but to say this is deplorable and shows no intelligence shame on you pm
They have gone down the rabbit hole now. A point of no return.
This is getting ridiculous. Good days when this twit is comprehensively voted out.
What a maroon.
You’ve got my vote ScottMorrisonMP
The prime muppet Scott Morrison claimed to be the prime minister but no one believed him
The LNP fall back propaganda strategy is to make up scary sounding lies. We call Bullshit on this one ScottMorrisonMP and PeterDutton_MP Grow up. Australians aren’t stupid. AusPol
Absolute rubbish and lies
PM might end up in hospital himself cause his pants are on fire! liarliar
What a pile of horseshit ScottMorrisonMP goes on with. He is the original fakenews
Just more illogical idiocy from LNP
My goodness, has the LNP era already done that much damage to our health system. auspol
How can our Ministers and Prime Minister lie like this?
The Bill is Law. What does he care now? Seriously. He won't be PM after the election. tempPM
As per usual everything that comes out of ScumMo's mouth is pure wank 🙄
im gonna dack scott morrison
Lying again
Says more about the state of the healthcare system under the Libs than anything else. Also, a lie by Morrison compounding the lie by Dutton
A desperate gov't won't be left wondering if they told enough lies and whipped up enough hate. Will be glad to be rid of you ScottMorrisonMP
Does he think we all share like the one brain cell in this kntry?
Astonishingly dishonest. A completely ridiculous claim.
Isn't he taking the Scrooge impersonation a bit too far?
The Dutton line as well. 9NewsAUS
Desperate move
Such crap
Bullshit
HAHAHA.. HAHAHA.. auspol
Unbelievable.
Does Scummo 🤡 think that we are so gullible that we'll believe this? If so, it just shows his absolute contempt for the people that he is supposed to represent, that he sees us as stupid & readily manipulated! 🤬🤬🤬
Prove it won't. 🤔
Not as much as the LNP destroying Medicare
This is deceitful and he knows it. This is shocking behaviour from anyone, let alone our PM auspol.