Keogh Is Using One Gate To Hide Another

Dear Editor,

Matt Keogh has now shown his trick regarding the Allied Health Cap.

On Sky News Politics Now, he bundled three things together: higher fees for allied health providers, removal of the 12-session treatment cycle, and a $5000 annual cap. 

Two of those make access easier.

The cap does not.

If fraud is the problem, chase the fraud. Audit providers. Recover money. Refer offenders.

Do not create a new DVA gate for veterans with the most complex needs.

Trudi McIntosh asked the question that matters: if most veterans are under the cap, and clinical need above it will still be met, where does the $748 million saving come from?

That question still has not been answered.

A cleaner process is still a gate if veterans have to ask DVA for permission to keep getting care.

I expand on this argument at markcroxford.net/read

Regards,

Mark Croxford
20-year Navy veteran and
former media and political adviser to a Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel

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