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    Aged care minister pursues claims providers charging premium for basic services

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    1. Ornery-Ad-7261 on

      Did the government really think that operators wouldn’t do this?

      Profit is the sole purpose of private operators providing public services.

    2. Localnewylegend on

      If they only knew… 

      The aged care facility I used to work for currently owes money to the company that provides the dressing for resident’s wounds. Their accreditation also expired back in Janurary. And their aged care star rating has vanished because they’re have changed their abn…to I assume get a higher rating then they would have got. 

      In my last week there the facility ran out of continence aids (as someone wasn’t ordering them ) so we had to put medium sized aids on people who needed extra large aids..

      Expired end of life medication, the list is endless

      And nothing gets done! 

      You’re damn right people are paying a premium for service that is not being provided. It’s fucking shameful. 

    3. asphodel67 on

      We sold aged care services off to ‘for profit’ entities and now they’re trying to maximise their profits!!

    4. Roulette-Adventures on

      There will always be a minority of providers gouging the system, and sadly giving good providers a bad name.

      More effort by governments, on both sides, with policing these taxpayer funded schemes and always throw the book at offenders – never go easy on them.

      Perhaps an Anti-Fraud Department which does nothing but chase cunts who rip off the system.

    6. Sirtemed on

      Another case of Government claiming they didn’t know (of course they knew, they just did not care)

    7. BaseConnect1420 on

      For profit owners take extraordinary amounts of profit from government funding rather than investing back into the aged care service. Have a read of their financial reports, it’s blatant exploitation. Profit before consumers.

    8. Suspicious-Ant-872 on

      This is John Howard’s 1997 Aged Care Act in work. Deregulation, removal of Registered Nurses, opening the sector up to private equity and profit.