Medicare levy hike needed to fix Aged Care

Australia can fix its broken aged-care system to avoid repeating the horrors of COVID-19, but we must be willing to raise the Medicare levy, reports an economic consultancy firm. The Medicare levy hike would seek to solve some of these issues by boosting staff numbers and the wages of aged-care workers, under a proposal by the Health Services Union NSW/ACT/Qld. To afford the sector’s much-needed safety and quality upgrades, funding would need to be increased by between $2 billion to $20 billion, the report states.