The government is already saving big dollars by making it so hard for NDIS applicants.

This is stupid as what it results in is more mental health issues.

A large number of current assessors have no medical background, so who says the new ones will?

Or is this just another privatization like the workers compensation debacle?

Is the government is now saying to NDIS participants: We got it wrong when we looked at your original specialists reports and other health professional reports?

So we need to get someone to do it again all that will do is put participants through it again?

It is an undisputable fact that we have not valued the lives of older people in Australia for a very long time.

But what has highlighted this fact has been the alarming death rate caused by the coronavirus, spread by people allegedly working at multiple facilities to the most medically vulnerable of our society.

Worse still is the total lack of respect given to these people in the final stage of their lives by this money grabbing, couldn't care less system by some operators.

No one could be anything but disgusted by the excuses and blame shifting still going in this sector.

The fact that residents are disappearing off the daily radar and becoming another daily statistic, is testament to this opinion.

Allegations of failing to comply with regulations are fobbed off by the federal aged care minister as well as the federal chief medical officer.

This could only be brutally interpreted as covering each other's backside.

In anybody's analysis it is despicable.

The infection rate in private aged care, has resulted in 761 deaths.

The public system which has barely seen any fatalities.

What does that tell you?

The first thing is profit over adequate care, which surely is a catastrophic failure of the federal aged care regulator

They have been strangely quiet.

The most compelling failure of this sector is the fact that they are called "nursing homes" at all, as they clearly do not fit this criteria.

Time to install nurses in "nursing homes" again - immediately.

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