Which appeals more to you? Queueing up at your doctors or in the emergency room? 😷😫
✨Or waiting quietly in the elegant and relaxing waiting room at Body Stillness? 😌
Under Greg Hunt’s watch as health minister in 2019, private health rebate cuts have affected most of you as well thousands of practitioners all over Australia🔥. Not a big deal for large companies and 6-figure waged employees; HOWEVER, every Shiatsu Practitioner, Pilates instructor, Naturopath, Homeopath, Kinesiologist, yoga teacher (and plenty others) are now facing a year of crippled income to their (somewhat) already small sole-trader income😞. What the rebate cut means socially is that many people will skip getting their (previously) rebated alternative therapy and head to the doctor or hold off getting any treatment; instead waiting until their symptoms are so bad, they end up at the emergency department of the local hospital😩. We all know hospitals are over run and understaffed as it is. Doesn’t it make more sense for the government to invest in small business, support people in their alternative health choices and take pressure off an overburdened medical system?
Lilly Harris of Hobart Shiatsu and Body Stillness has passed on a personal rebate relief of $10 off every treatment 🙌🏻 since November 1st until now. Lilly’s prices will shift back to her normal rate from March 1st. This move is anticipating a positive outcome from the findings of the external expert panel of reviewers that have reassessed all the therapies that were cut in April 2019.
We hope to have some good news for you soon🥰. In the meantime, if you feel fired up and passionate 💥about pushing for rebate change, write a hand written letter to your local member for council, state health minister/shadow minister and federal health minister. Our small voices DO make a difference. Tell them how it directly affects you and your loved ones, as well as how you can guess it affects us as practitioners.
Go! Be brave! Stand up for what you love and believe in. The government listens to it’s people when we make enough noise 👊.
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