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Sweeping changes to the national disability insurance scheme are expected to save the federal budget $35bn over four years, the health minister, Mark Butler, has confirmed.
Butler announced a major overhaul yesterday to contain the scheme’s rising costs, including changes to eligibility rules that are expected to remove at least 160,000 participants from the program by 2030.
It’s a significant figure but one that we are confident is necessary to get this thing back on track. After all, what we are trying to do is secure its future in the long term.
But they were up for the challenge. Disability ministers are talking with participants every single day. They’re talking with disability providers, and all of them are saying they want a better quality of service delivered to them.
They want, they want this sort of free-for-all market that’s grown up over the last 10 years or so, cleaned up. They want to see the fraud cleaned up. They want to see more integrity into the system. So there’s a lot of enthusiasm for the job of getting this thing back-on-track.
Continue reading...Source: Guardian - World News
