Controlling the cost of the NDIS, which Labor says has “lost its way” and risks becoming unviable, is about saving it for those for whom it was designed.
Labor’s fledging National Disability Insurance SchemeIn a budget first, Swan released a 10-year funding trajectory for the scheme which Labor was likening to Bob Hawke’s Medicare in terms of reform gravitas.
This financial year, the federal government will spend more on the NDIS year than Medicare , aged care , and support for state government hospitals .he federal government will cover 66 per cent of the cost of the NDIS this financial year,As confirmed by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday, the scheme, which a decade ago existed in name only, is now the second-fastest growing item in the entire federal budget, behind only interest payments on debt.
This was a big concession for Shorten to make. Until recently, he was deriding the cost blowout forecasts being The assessments would be conducted by a panel of private providers such as psychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech pathologists. As Labor comes to the same realisation as Morrison and Reynolds, it has one thing going for it that Morrison never had – bipartisan support.
Treatments for early developmental problems in children, such as health and hearing impediments, were similarly being pushed by states onto the NDIS.In this vein, Shorten said fixing NDIS required “systemic reform of the entire disability ecosystem – the NDIS, mainstream and community services”. Autism was, and is, one of the biggest areas of concern. About one third of the NDIS is dedicated to helping those with autism. NDIS eligibility only applies to people with stage two autism and above, and the actuary figures show a spike in stage two diagnoses since the funding became available.So much so that the in-house joke within government is that stage one autism, which is the mildest form, has suddenly ceased to exist in Australia.
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