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Didn't we have an NDIS thread, or was that on the old forums?

Here is an absolute fucking NDIS disaster!

Now, after builders engaged to construct an NDIS-funded accessibility lift and path for her home have downed tools, 60-year-old Jane has been trapped inside her Queensland home since November.

“I can no longer get in or out at all. These providers have spent $45,000 of my funding already, and I’m literally sitting on an unfinished building site with doors taken off, deep trenches, yellow tape, mounds of concrete and no date or even promise that this will ever be sorted,” she says.

“I live in a wooden house. If there was a fire right now, I would die inside,” she says, “how has this been allowed to go on like this?”

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real- ... c552d790af

stevebrooks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:01 pm Didn't we have an NDIS thread, or was that on the old forums?

(snip)

There was "Quacking for Government Money" - here -https://ausatheists.net/viewtopic.php?p ... =ndis#p160 - which mentioned NDIS, but this may as well be the main thread for NDIS matters.

So, got a letter today from the Hon Bill Shorten MP

Looks like all NDIS participants are getting this letter.. Basically talking about dodgy providers gaming the system and charging what Shorten calls the "wedding tax". i.e. Charging higher rates for NDIS participants to rip (arguably) us all off. Then going on and asking us to dob them in to the government.

I actually appreciate this at one level, as I would far prefer they go after people rorting the system than cutting payments to people in need, but will they really do that?

I posted elsewhere about the various Medicare frauds and Margaret Faux's testimony (that the government just avoids) that overcharging accounts for 30% of the cost of Medicare. Which makes me doubt they will fix this issue in the NDIS, providers will just pivot and over service, or over claim in other ways, as is done to Medicare.

If the government refuses to do anything to fix Medicare overcharging (some of it incredibly blatant) will they really fix the NDIS by asking us to dob in overcharging providers?

joele wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:12 pm
(snipperama)

If the government refuses to do anything to fix Medicare overcharging (some of it incredibly blatant) will they really fix the NDIS by asking us to dob in overcharging providers?

I doubt it, but there will probably be some expensive media, print and other content, in which they pat themselves on the back.

The time for Albo's mob to have acted is probably gone. Next election is late September 2025 at most, so I'd expect an extension of Promise Mode.

Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:56 pm

joele wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 6:12 pm
(snipperama)

If the government refuses to do anything to fix Medicare overcharging (some of it incredibly blatant) will they really fix the NDIS by asking us to dob in overcharging providers?

I doubt it, but there will probably be some expensive media, print and other content, in which they pat themselves on the back.

The time for Albo's mob to have acted is probably gone. Next election is late September 2025 at most, so I'd expect an extension of Promise Mode.

The NDIS seemed to collapse so quickly. It took decades for Medicare to turn to shit. Maybe it's because the NDIS was established at a time when neo-liberalism was dominant. I don't know how to fix it, but my inclination is to take control out of the private sector for both of them. Strong well-equipped public hospitals would be the starting point. For different kinds of services try to find a way to apply the same principle, making service provision the motivation rather than profit. It's my understanding that the NDIS had the effect of privatising services previously provided by more efficient state-run entities.

My analysis isn't deep, it's just socialism basically. It's far-fetched, neither of the major parties will do it, unless they are forced to by a disastrous scandalous collapse of the system, so maybe not so far-fetched.

Let money dribble into the waters of privatisation... get sharks.

In short: The acting boss for the NDIS watchdog says more than a fifth of funding may be being abused by crime groups.
Michael Phelan says since moving from the crime commission to the NDIS regulator, the picture appears worse than he feared.
What's next? Legislation is before parliament to reform how plans are managed and give more powers to protect clients from abuse.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-24/ ... /103888752