23 April

It’s difficult to comment on this because so many people have had their lives transformed by this funding. But to put things into perspective here, the NDIS is currently costing $15 billion more per year than the entire Medicare system. And those costs were still growing, almost exponentially. The NDIS currently applies to 2.8% of the Australian population. How do people in any basic arithmetic way think it’s sustainable for a system that supports 2.8% of Australians to cost more than the entire Medicare system for all Australians? At a time when that entire population is ageing badly and demands on the wider health system are growing enormously. Something has to give, our beliefs and feelings are decoupled from reality.