VMAG Victorian Election 2014 Campaign
VMAG members met recently and agreed to target candidates in the 22 most marginal seats in the upcoming Victorian election to ask them what they are going to do to preserve universal access to Medicare.
VMAG now encourages all members and interested people to contact candidates and ask them four key questions:
Do you support the federal government reducing public hospital funding by $1.8b, leaving the states to make up the shortfall or drastically reduce services?
Do you support the $7 Medicare co-payment for GP services proposed in the federal Budget?
If you support a GP co-payment how do you propose to manage the increased load on emergency departments and community health services in your electorate as a result of patients deferring seeing a doctor early, before they become acutely ill?
How will you promote greater emphasis in our health system on prevention and promoting health if the GP co-payment and hospital and other cuts come in?
An information pack has been created and can be downloaded from below that provides you with a copy of these four questions, ten key messages to help you understand the issue and to convey your message; and a list of the candidates in the 22 most marginal seats in the upcoming Victorian election.
If you meet with a local candidate, please let us know at [email protected] who you met and what their responses was.
VMAG members met recently and agreed to target candidates in the 22 most marginal seats in the upcoming Victorian election to ask them what they are going to do to preserve universal access to Medicare.
VMAG now encourages all members and interested people to contact candidates and ask them four key questions:
Do you support the federal government reducing public hospital funding by $1.8b, leaving the states to make up the shortfall or drastically reduce services?
Do you support the $7 Medicare co-payment for GP services proposed in the federal Budget?
If you support a GP co-payment how do you propose to manage the increased load on emergency departments and community health services in your electorate as a result of patients deferring seeing a doctor early, before they become acutely ill?
How will you promote greater emphasis in our health system on prevention and promoting health if the GP co-payment and hospital and other cuts come in?
An information pack has been created and can be downloaded from below that provides you with a copy of these four questions, ten key messages to help you understand the issue and to convey your message; and a list of the candidates in the 22 most marginal seats in the upcoming Victorian election.
If you meet with a local candidate, please let us know at [email protected] who you met and what their responses was.
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VMAG encourages everyone interested in preserving universal access to Medicare to take the following urgent :
- Hold a local ‘Medicare conversation’ with your members or consumers, build awareness of the threat to Medicare
- Encourage members / consumers to write to Tony Abbott expressing their concern at the proposed $7 co payment
- Target communications to members of the National Party highlighting the effects will be significant for people living in rural and regional areas
- Target communications to members of Parliament representing urban rural fringe, metro fringe and low ses areas
- Use your Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, organisation website and other social media to promote this issue and raise awareness of the threat to Medicare
- Encourage other organisations, friends and interested people to join the Victorian Medicare Action Group - just send us an email [email protected]) and we will add you to the database