Taxing Healthcare with David Beard and Dr Felix Meyer

For nearly two decades, the exercise physiology community has advocated for a change in the legislation to ensure fair and equitable access to healthcare services for the Australian Community.

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For more than two decades, there has been a tax imposed on the Australian community making access to some healthcare services more expensive than others. This is the Goods & Services Tax or the (GST). When this tax was introduced in Australia in July 2000 it exempted multiple healthcare services like hospitals, aged care, disability,  general health and allied health services from applying GST to their services, however, other medical services including EP, music therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors and diabetes educators were not included in the exemption.

For nearly two decades, the exercise physiology community has advocated for a change in the legislation to ensure fair and equitable access to healthcare services for the Australian Community. For nearly two decades, the community have been meeting with politicians, writing letters, and signing petitions.

Rhea sat down with David Beard, an exercise physiologist, and Dr Felix Meyer a representative of Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA), the professional association for exercise physiologist to discuss why it’s so important for EP services to be GST-free, how GST-free services benefit the Australian community, and what in the world is it taking so long?

Find David Beard | Linkedin | https://www.davidbeard.co | https://www.hfrc.com.au | X / Twitter

Find Dr Felix Meyer | Linkedin | [e-mail] | https://essa.org.au 

Contact your local member https://www.aph.gov.au/senators_and_members/members

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