Australian hospitals are currently allocated funding on a fixed price for each treatment they provide. Proponents see this plan as making hospitals more efficient and providing an equal level of care. Opponents believe it causes hospitals to offer more expensive treatments in order to maximize their profits.
65% Yes |
35% No |
53% Yes |
24% No |
12% Yes, this helps keeps costs at a standardised rate nationwide |
11% No, this model encourages hospitals to use unnecessary expensive treatments on patients in order to make a profit |
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Unique answers from Australia users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
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Healthcare should not be free, as the government needs to fund other services and healthcare can be used as a way to develop the economy further.
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No, Healthcare should be free
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Yes but put more barriers in so they don’t do unnecessary treatment for profit
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Yes but regulate the services they provide and fees that are paid for each service
@92ZDPT62yrs2Y
medical care should be provided free of charge to those who unable to pay
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had been obliged to launch strikes that have inflicted heavy damage on Ukrainian energy sites in response to Kyiv's attacks on Russian targets.The Kremlin leader, quoted by Russian news agencies, was speaking to his ally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, after overnight attacks destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine.The president said the strikes were part of the process of "demilitarisation" of Ukraine -- one of the objectives he cited when he sent Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022."Unfortunately, we observed a series of strikes on our energy sites recently and were obliged to respond," Putin was quoted as saying."The strikes on energy are linked in part with solving one of the tasks we set for ourselves, and that is demilitarisation. We believe above all that in this way we will affect Ukraine's military industrial complex and in a very direct way."Russia, he said, had refrained from carrying out such attacks in winter "out of humanitarian considerations"."What I mean is that we didn't want to leave social institutions without power, hospitals and the like," he said. But he said the Ukrainian strikes -- mainly on oil refineries in many different Russian regions in recent weeks -- prompted Moscow to respond.In his comments to Lukashenko, Putin again dismissed any suggestion by Ukraine's Western allies that Russia had plans to attack any European countries beyond Ukraine.
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The declared goal of the Israeli onslaught has been the “eradication” of Hamas from the enclave, but the viability of that being achieved has been increasingly questioned by foreign officials and analysts. Instead, the large-scale destruction wrought on Gaza as well as internal communications point to another aim the Israeli authorities may be pursuing.A document produced by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence leaked to the Israeli press in late October outlined the forcible and permanent transfer of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.The document was reportedly created for an organisation called The Unit for Settlement – Gaza Strip, which seeks to recolonise the Gaza Strip 18 years after Israeli troops and settlers withdrew from it.The new strategy is implemented by targeting civilian infrastructure that supports life in the strip, including schools, universities, hospitals, bakeries, shops, farmland and greenhouses, water stations, sewage systems, power stations, solar panels, and generators.This is carried out in parallel with a full siege on Gaza, whereby food, water, electricity and medicine have been cut off. The Israeli army lets in a few trucks a day, if at all, which humanitarian organisations have said does not meet at all the needs of the Palestinian population, 1.8 million of whom have been internally displaced.
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Haaretz investigated figures for Israeli soldiers admitted into hospitals, and found a large discrepancy between those numbers and what the Israeli military announced. To the military's 1,593 injured, the paper found that more than 4,500 entered hospital:
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Active 5 days agoThe two-state solution is a proposed diplomatic solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The proposal envisions an independent State of Palestine that borders Israel. Palestinian leadership has supported the concept since the 1982 Arab Summit in Fez. In 2017 the Hamas (a Palestinian Resistance…
