Sam Patico on Nostr: The letter I wrote to my MP just yesterday: Subject: Moral and ethical objection to ...

The letter I wrote to my MP just yesterday:

Subject: Moral and ethical objection to the Tax Act encouragement of private health insurance.

Dear <snip>,

Many years ago, we endured the nightmare years of the Howard Government.
In order to funnel money to their rent-seeker friends, they imposed a private health insurance 'surcharge' on our taxes.
To add a lie on top of the steal, they called it the "Medicare levy surcharge"
It encourages people to take out private health insurance, a scam product with no possible benefits to the buyer.

I am over-the-moon happy to pay for Medicare, a real insurance product, with real benefits to the buyer (and to everyone else in the community).
More of that please. Raise the Medicare levy by all means.

I have just paid my 'surcharge'. I cannot record my moral and ethical objection to private health insurance, and the Government's active encouragement of it on my tax return, so I am asking you to it on my behalf:
Please,

1. Use parliament to say "private health insurance, turning a profit from people's fears, is unethical. The cost of private health insurance far exceeds the benefits; both to the individual and to the community"
2. Rename and/or remove this unethical element from the Tax Act
3. Remove government subsidies of private health insurance, and
4. Put all the money into Medicare, where it belongs