Business leader suggests ‘raising Medicare levy’ to fund NDIS as costs blow out

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One of Australia’s most prominent business leaders has raised the possibility of increasing the Medicare levy to keep funding the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the controversial program to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

Tony Shepherd is a former head of the Business Council of Australia and a former head of the commission of audit which has previously reported to the federal government on NDIS costs.

He told Sky News the NDIS is incredibly important but the federal budget is “not a magic pudding” and the money spent on the scheme has to be replenished somehow. Mr Shepherd spoke exclusively to Sky News as part of an investigation into the latest cost blowout of the NDIS scheme – which is expected to cost around $100 billion a year in the next decade – dwarfing the annual budgets for defence, Medicare and aged pensions.

 

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a program to improve the lives of people with disabilities is 'controversial' GET BENT, RUPERT.

I haven’t used my Medicare card in 13 years - why am I paying anything at all?

Makes a lot of sense. Taxes are going up no matter what. The Ndis is with us now. We wanted it, now start paying.

The NDIS is supposedly an insurance scheme assisting people with disabilities and as such we all should be making a contribution to keep it viable by paying a levy just like we do for Medicare and the states need to make a larger financial contribution

But why? Never going to work.

no but we definitely shouLd lower politicans income they seem to be earning too much from other sponsors like

Great, every time the media says prices are going up and cause panic in the public, prices go up, now you say Medicare levy should go up, get the public used to the idea and Boom it goes up -- Shut up media

Nine Years of LNP & Donors with fingers in the pie 🤷🏻‍♂️

...or some of these free-loaders could pay tax?

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