Prime Minister's Thoughts on the Medicare Debate
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by patti11
Hello Australians,
Although it may appear I have been absent from the recent lets say 'heated' debates over medicare. I have not and have been watching very intentely. The fact that an intellectual debate turned into what it did is very disapointing for me. Personal attacks coming from any citizens is not acceptable in Australia. If anyone wants to attack someone personally I will personally fund you some tickets to the eUSA where this kind of stuff is more tolerated. I know both of the main instigators quite well and I plan to have a talk to both of them. I am very disapointed in them and everyone else who managed to get caught in the attacks.
With that out of the way lets go back to the Medicare Debate, Gifting vs Tickets.
The Tickets method is not a new one and has been pre V1. This method is very effective of skyrocketing wellness is a short period of time, for very cheap. It is used by many countries, and infact eUK are enacting it into law as we speak.
The Gifting method is even older. Mayors of BETA used to do the gifting of their citizens here and was a great substitute in the times when the war module was offline rendering hospitals useless. Gifting also reaches a lot more of the population then tickets can for the same price. Lerts have a look at some figures.
Currently we spend 300AUD a day on gifts at lets say 2.8AUD each. That is 107 gifts produced or 21 people gifted 5 times a day. We also produce around 120 gifts from Medicare Gifts a day at 51AUD a day so that is another 24 people gifted. So all up that is 45 people gifted 5 times a day for 351AUD. 225 wellness a day.
Lets have a look at how much that 351AUD could be spent on tickets. Tickets are 28AUD a pop each way meaning 12 people a day get to benefit from the scheme. However, each will gain 48 wellness at the end of it meaning 600 wellness extra a day. Significantly more than the gifting scheme.
So the obvious question now is? Why the hell are we still using the gifting method? Well simply, a ticketing scheme would only benefit citizens above 40 wellness, the minimum required to fight, which is the only prerequisite for using a hospital. This means the most needy citizens, those less than 40, will not be able to benefit from this scheme, bummer.
So the next question is what is the best way to implement a wellness scheme? The answer is balance. A gifting and ticket scheme would work great hand in hand. However there is still one other option we have missed, the buddy scheme. This scheme works by a citizens finding a 'buddy', and they gift each other. This promotes mateship and costs the government nothing.
All in all, it is clear our wellness scheme is in need of an overhaul. I plan to work with Br0adside and Alte Altus on this in the coming days.
Stay safe and everything have a think about my first paragraph,
Patti11
Prime Minister of Australia
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How about higher Q food for below 40 wellness (as it is most effective there) and tickets above. This is where I think the my mayor plan would have come in very, very handy as they can communicate with each citizen and work with them rather than just gifting people because they work.
I'd like to say something before we get back to the gutter in 10 minutes time. Wasn't the idea of these types of programs there to give people a leg up whilst starting out. It was never proposed as some kind of broad social security program. The idea that people continuously gets bottlefed off any program is something that will continously put strain on the budget.
Good work Patti!
Always good to be reminded our PM supports basic ettiqute and respect!
Also tickets and food do not work as efficiently in the higher levels of wellness to give it the end boost, that is where gifting can do really well.
I tried to promote a buddy system for months. Its not something that can be organised but needs to be promoted and if people can be bothered doing something about it they will.
@Cheese: too right
@tim: That is correct I remember you and MM campaigning strongly for it. I see its benefits and would love to implement it in the overall plan
good article Patti 😃
I sent a letter requesting a joint effort between Centrelink and eAPWP.
I requested help with the gifting of people interested in our program below 40 wellness. Centrelink may already be gifting these people anyway. My idea is to focus on the people that have a job, want the help, and ask for the help. I think we will see the greatest returns from these people.
This is a two way street. I would in turn like Centrelink to refer people to our program that they have been helping so we get there wellness to the 98,99, 100, whatever the heck it is. 🙂
It is easier to be an onlooker of a fight or an attack then to be in one and walk away. I am sorry for any of the hard feelings that clouded the real objective here.
Thanks for getting us back on track Patti! 🙂
@ Corny, this is a good idea also. Q5 Food right now costs 9 AUD and 5 gifts costs 12 AUD. This, of course, is based on market pricing.
I agree to the Gifting Buddy idea too.
Let get our country healthy and prosperous!
I asked this before and it kinda got lost in the "shuffle" of things.
Where are they being "told" where to move/fight?
I like the idea of using the move/gift scheme , I've done it independently myself.
But if the Government were to support such a scheme, it'd have to either
a) give two locations of Q5s in oppposing sides in a war and let the citizen decide
b) Lose all the current neutrality and openly support a single side in a conflict - assuming that side had a Q5 😉
Just a thought (or two or three) from a former MoSS/MoH.
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Go Patti. Mix it up a bit, it keeps peoples on their toes...
@Derek - I asked that question on one of the other pages - basically the answer was that they were told what to look for (ie a region with a Q5 hospital involved in a war) - and it was left up to them to decide where to go and which side to fight for. I was also very concerned about this being used to essentially fund a mercenary army that a company (or if funded by gov't eventually, gov't) would control.
Ranger and DA very good points. We can't send them anywhere willy nilly it can look like we are taking sides, which is a no no for us as we are neutral. Hopefully we can use this by entering our own war which I am doing now
@DA
'b) Lose all the current neutrality and openly support a single side in a conflict - assuming that side had a Q5 😉'
They would mostly be un-recogniseable peoples who would do no damage without a weapon so I'm sure it wouldn't matter.
@Cheeseball: but they are recognizable; battle histories are avail on the ereptools website (it actually caused a "hiccup" in the negotiations w/ Indo when I was PM).
Theres alot to think about there, but to develop a balance of the 3 will be of most use to eAust in the long term, giftying to help those who need it most, ticketing to give a significant boost for cheap, thus cheaply helping productivity a great deal. And the buddy system to bond the eAust people together, therefore fostering a nation that works as a team. I trust patti11, Br0adside and Alte Altus will strike a system that works well however.
See, I knew I voted for you for a reason.