01-19-2024, 11:52 PM
The class 5 certificate is still born because it still requires a GP to sign off on a medical assessment before you are allowed to self assess.
I can just imagine how many GP's will be eager to sign off on say, a fifty something, they just met at a bulk bill clinic. This is the same trick that was used to destroy the last medical reform - no GP will be allowed by their insurer to sign off on a certficate 5.
Furthermore, anyone with an excluding condition is back at square one at the mercy of CASA with thousands of dollars of specialist reports required.
How many accidents have been attributed to exotic medical conditions? Zero.
Then there is the question of access to people with disabilities.....
I can just imagine how many GP's will be eager to sign off on say, a fifty something, they just met at a bulk bill clinic. This is the same trick that was used to destroy the last medical reform - no GP will be allowed by their insurer to sign off on a certficate 5.
Furthermore, anyone with an excluding condition is back at square one at the mercy of CASA with thousands of dollars of specialist reports required.
How many accidents have been attributed to exotic medical conditions? Zero.
Then there is the question of access to people with disabilities.....