On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:37 PM, John Coyle wrote: > And here in Queensland one pensioner has waited 15 years for cataract > surgery, and has now > been told he is off the waiting list because his case is considered > "non-urgent". It took > him 9 years to even get on the list - now he has to find $4000 for private > treatment - > this from our "caring " Labor government...
They did a similar kind of thing here a while back: reduced the hospital waiting lists by kicking people off then tried to claim political credit for the improved stats. I don't remember the specifics but it wasn't well received. The surprise for me is that I thought that Australians treat their senior citizens very well. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
