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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210455.htm?section=wa?section=wa :
A health economist has calculated that the government should be willing to spend $15 billion a year to bridge the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Curtin University's Gavin Mooney has estimated the government should spend $340 billion over 22 years, based on the government's spending elsewhere in the health service.[...] He has calculated that the government spends $40,000 per person subsidising a drug that increases life expectancy by one year.
You know, I think if you just paid matching salary to each of Australia's 400,000 Aboriginals of up to $40,000 per year, you'd actually do a lot better job of increasing life expectancy than medicating them. Money for nothing is a recipe for trouble, but doubling income gained from other sources could produce some exciting results, especially if some of that money went into local community trust funds for housing and the like.
A health economist has calculated that the government should be willing to spend $15 billion a year to bridge the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
Curtin University's Gavin Mooney has estimated the government should spend $340 billion over 22 years, based on the government's spending elsewhere in the health service.[...] He has calculated that the government spends $40,000 per person subsidising a drug that increases life expectancy by one year.
You know, I think if you just paid matching salary to each of Australia's 400,000 Aboriginals of up to $40,000 per year, you'd actually do a lot better job of increasing life expectancy than medicating them. Money for nothing is a recipe for trouble, but doubling income gained from other sources could produce some exciting results, especially if some of that money went into local community trust funds for housing and the like.
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You might feel differently if you were on the receiving end of the racism.
ETA: Not all extra healthcare funding has to be more hospitals for Aboriginal people or whatever- a significant part needs to be training Aboriginal people to provide healthcare within and outside the mainstream health care system.