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Originally Posted by Locke
And this sort of goes back to something that Slava touched upon previously and that I've sort of been on about as well.
These issues are not solved with dollars.
These types of systems and processes are endemic in AHS. Believe it or not, AHS is not an underfunded entity, they are given lots and lots of budget, but they dont use it very effectively and to cure most of AHS' ills, just more money isnt going to do it, not on its own. AHS needs serious budgetary and operational reform.
I do however think an element that some people may miss or gloss over is that we do need to pile in a ton of money up-front to keep the thing running while we perform those reforms.
If someone told me that the will and the structure were in place to turn AHS into something better...read: NOT necessarily CHEAPER but BETTER
I would be more than okay with a huge infusion of Tax Dollars for that.
Those are Tax Dollars that are actually benefitting people as long as they're not being swallowed up by AHS middle-management bloat.
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Some are. Like seniors stuck in hospital care because we don't have enough community care spaces. It's expensive and pointless, but there is no choice. So yes, we need to spend money on care homes to spend less in hospitals. But it starts with spending moeny in the right spots, and will take years to see the financial benefits.