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Originally Posted by prydey
How do you implement a system and prevent it from being abused?
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Run it like medicare for one thing. Every type of service covered under NDIS should have a cost cap/rebate like each type of healthcare service. If providers want to charge more than the medicare rate, the market will soon sort out what they're willing to pay what for.
Limits need to be placed on who gets what. If a treatment is unlikely to help someone overcome a deficit that prevents them from working, it shouldnt be covered. That might sound harsh, but one of the major justifications for NDIS was that it would improve the productivity of its participants. If the goal has shifted to simply make them happier, then it's a no from me. Nobody wants to do anything about the stresses in my life that will probably send me to an early grave (most people running a business can probably understand where I'm coming from on that point). Why should I be funding how much they get to enjoy theirs.