Bring back TAA & ANSETT !

individual,

And better still, let's bring back the Wright brothers!

Mr 0,
It turns out the Wright Brothers weren't even first. There was a documentary about it on ABC last month, but it doesn't seem to be on iView any more.

An E-mail I received a few days back;

Dear Paul,

Did you know that one of the biggest private hospital corporations in Queensland, Ramsay Health, made over $1 billion in profit last year?

And that part of these profits come from public money?

Queensland private hospitals receive billions of dollars in public money every year. Right now the Federal government is spending $1.3 billion propping them up after they threatened to shut their own hospitals and fire nurses and doctors in the middle of one of the worst healthcare crises in our country's history.

I think it’s time we used public money for common good, not the profit margins of multinational private corporations. That’s why last Wednesday I called on the state government to nationalise all private Queensland hospitals.

The support I received was incredible. Hundreds of people signed the petition within the first few hours of it going up, and hundreds more shared our square on Facebook.

And we’ve already had a win. The following day the Queensland Government moved to purchase the private Gladstone Mater Hospital.

I think that it's one thing to say the Ramsay Health made a billion dollars;
But the more important question is can Queensland Health produce the same result?
- Or will they waste a billion in mismanagement?

- If government could run things as well as private companies, there wouldn't be a case to privatise -

Hey AC,

I can only comment on NSW Health, as my wife worked in the public sector for over 10 years before retiring. Conditions and treatment for patents was first class. Should we have the American health system? Where if you have private health insurance, and in need of a face-lift, you get first class treatment in a gold plated bed, with a team of personal doctors and nurses in a swanky private establishment, five star. If you are Joe Public with no insurance and dying from Covid-19, you get an Aspirin if you're lucky, in a third rate under staffed, under equipped no star public institution, then when you cark it they throw your corps into an unmarked mass grave. DON'T BE FOOLED!