A Carbon Tax is a tax on the people and progress - not on industry. The populus will bear the cost as it will be passed on. By sending the money to Health you are getting the people to pay over again for health after they pay the Medicare levy. This is pure lunacy.

Carbon Taxes are the scam of the century. Paying for a non-existent problem (Global Warming!) by taxing a harmless gas.

Carbon Taxes will truly send us broke. Intelligent analysis of such issues seem to have disappeared and have been replaced by an arrogant new Green ideology of thought in which logic and reason plays only a minor role.

Formersnag, you are right about the bureaucracy.

The drive for improved effeciencies and cost effectiveness, has greated a huge bureaucracy because of the huge amount of data that is collected. To see where the money is being spent and how it is being spent.

What is interesting is that we now have fewer public hospital beds than in 1981.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/20/we-have-38-less-hospital-beds-than-in-1981-its-a-scandal/

The only way that effeciency is going to improve, it that more beds and staff become available.

Another way would be to reverse triage people, and not to treat patients who have a high chance of not getting better.