My brother, was recently discharged from Hospital, without receiving the assessment requested by his GP. He has complex health issues I wont go into here for reasons of privacy. After being evicted from the respite care we managed to get organised, he was hit by a car while trying to find accomodation, when he was in no state to be out on his own. He's now been in hospital for weeks being patched up. This has been harrowing for us, traumatic and life threatening for him, and extremely expensive for the health system. This is the problem with an ambulance at the bottom off the cliff, penny pinching mentality. Not only is it cruel and ineffective, its false economy. It costs more in the long run. Not to mention, f'ing traumatic for everyone involved. I've never been more disgusted by right wing rhetoric and "small govt" ideology peddled by politicians and junk tanks, largely funded by the same old freeloading tax dodgers and ultra wealthy vested interests. Surely enough is enough. 40 odd years of this BS. We know it doesn't work.