As of today the QLD transplant team is in tatters. The surgeon and a specialist quit to leave transplants being moved to NSW for the time being. Someone needs lynching!. Peter Beattie would be a good start.

My partner has had a double lung transplant, so we know the team well. At some stage she'll be up for listing again. This needs to be fixed, along with the rest of the health system fu*ken quick sticks.

belly
I was born in NSW - counrt town, Kempesy.
Try living on the gold Coast where you are over run with tourists and uni student and new comers who all use public health instead of private health.
Try being a local aged person who is really ill but cant get seen for the flood of people who really could go private but suck the life out of our sytem our state and our country.
Try watching your elderly parent suffer and die because they cant get medical attention.
Then judge me.
Remember the hospitals are run by the States.
QLD has your Mikly Bar Kid. He might like to start with MAKING those who can afford it go private?? Such as overseas uni students and high income earners tourists etc
QLD State hospitals are in a mess.
Now tell me you want him to run the country again.
Labour cant run QLD states biz let alone anything else.
Why dont you move up here to be closer to your hero then make a comment from the experince we locals have.
umm

Pale I am no teenager, and live not that far from your birth place.
Now consider some home truths without your biases.
Queenslanders elected this government, in fact rejected all others returning this government.
You once had Australia's best health care system.
Can you truly say locals are the only people who should use your public health?
Are you aware how much NSW and VIC has paqid in tax that is redirected to QLD?
Can you wish me to believe A conservative government has the answers to our nations dreadful health problems?
Are you aware how bad it is to live in America if you are unwell?
It will not be easy to fix health problems, but if it requires ideas like yours selective care based on race or state then humanity doe not deserve better.
Health must become a national system one national standard one set of expectations for the sick and a national way of paying for it.
Private hospitals? if so many did not seak profit from health care we may just remember it should be a human right.
If it was just the ALP who bought this on QLD I would not vote for them myself can you truly think one single party in one state is the problem? a problem the world shares?

Stg, i agree that hospitals are in a bad state.
In NSW in the 1970s and 1980s, we had the best health systems in the world. The hospitals were run by a Board, at the local level, the person in charge was a Medical Officer.
Since the introduction of Fiscal Managers having power in hospitals, it has been all down hill. The introduction of area health administrators who are only interested in budgets has also brought the health facilities to their knees.
We live in a supposed rich country, and health services should be free for everyone. Howard in giving 2 billion dollars to the private sector every year, has virtually robbed the public hospitals of federal money. For those who claim that the States are responsible for health services, think again. Howard removed the previous funding for dental health, in the early days of his coming to office.
The essential basic for the running of any hospital is infection control, fiscal managers are not appropriate for the health of patients, in any hospital.
I was a nurse for most of my working life and i have seen the best and worst of care for people in hospitals. When nursing training was moved to universities, it saved a lot of money for governments, but it has brought about the current shortage of nurses and the increased errors occurring in hospitals, but the blame also has to be laid on how hospitals are managed.
It does not matter which major party we vote for, whether state or federal, health services will never be the priority it was decades ago. Australia today is under the influence of business first governments, and the people seem to be accepting this state of affairs. Be careful who you vote for especially in the Senate.

Belly

We get 1500 people a week arriving and staying. Thats another thing the State labour Government need to do- Close the boarders to people relocating here. At least until we can fix the water problem.

Now if the Labour Federal Government came up with a few ideas as policys I might even look ast them.

Policys which make it law ALL people on welfare who receive the 30 per cent rebate have a few extra dollars taken out before they get their money which is paid into a private health care.
Come on belly - They can go to the pub and smoke.
We all must take some resonsibilty for our own health.

Up here there is a housing commission area at Labrador.
We employ a wonderful NZ lady at times to play the piano for different functions.
She said shes the only one there who speaks English.
The WHOLE of the area is non English speaking.
So we went there and took a few people who spoke different lingo.
When we asked how long they had waited for their units the answers were varried.
However it was NOTHING like the ten year wait most of the locals are on.
Your kidding yourself if you think the elderly get bETTER care in a nursing home.
They are MUCH better off getting one on one attention divided between two carers or more.
Nursing homes often have one person for thirty or fity people.
Leave the Elderly in their own homes and increase the home help.

PALE, you are ranting again. This time about new arrivals to the Gold Coast. But you said yourself that you come from Kempsey, so by definition are one of those new arrivals. Bad case of the pot calling the kettle black.....