She then expresses anger that the reaction to the killing of unborn babies is indifference.

I am opposed to cruelty to all beings – both human and non-human – but clearly H Leach only cares about humans.

I have noticed this before with anti-abortionists.

One time when I pointed out that the cows milk they served at their meetings was meant for baby calves who were killed for their milk the reaction was indifference.

I would like the opportunity to reply to the letter from David Arscott (Bendigo Advertiser, July 12) implying that the Labor Mediscare campaign was based on a lie.  

Anybody on the medical/specialist roller coaster knows a very different story.

It is a fact that Tony Abbott took expressions of interest from the private sector to run the $29 billion dollar Medicare and Pharmaceutical claims system.

It is also a fact that he considered to end free visits to the doctor, by requiring a $6 dollar co-payment per visit.

The commission of audit then recommended a co-payment of $15 dollars a visit, reduced by $5 dollars for concession holders, but the Medicare rebate would be cut by $5 dollars and bulk billing incentives only be paid to providers when the $7 dollar co-payment was collected.

This was then dispensed with and replaced with a $5 dollar payment to be collected from doctors, but then dumped for obvious reasons.

It was then planned to slash Medicare rebates for short visits from $37.05 to $16.95, but was then dropped shortly after, but then a freezing of Medicare rebates for doctors for a further five years was introduced resulting in doctors incomes falling 15 per cent relative to similar to other incomes unless they abandoned bulk billing.

It is hardly a surprise to anyone that 500,000 people are reportedly going to drop their private health insurance, as the expanding gap between the fee charged and the rebate received, is in some cases a pittance.

This combined with the constant cost of living increases is taking its toll on families with children and pensioners, as any wage or pension increases are not within a bulls roar of constantly rising costs, so it is not surprising that something has to give.

The consequences on the public system will be catastrophic and will be surely seen in coming years.

We can give big business tax cuts, waste $160 on a plebiscite that politicians should be voting on themselves, build obsolete submarines, throw billions to billionaires and pork barreling, and spend $5 million dollars on an inquiry about how many new computers were needed for the updated system when all we needed was somebody who could count, but we cannot look after the elderly, the disabled, and people on the marginals who rely on our medical system.

Some people may place their head in the sand for whatever reason, and attempt to trivialise a very serious situation, but the reality for people constantly in need of these services, the situation is entirely different – and very serious indeed.