Millions of $$$$$ in Aged Care, and the prospect of euthanasia and estate tax via Greens Party
Padman Health Care Pty. Ltd; Revenue $274 million, (according to ‘findthecompany’ website)[1]. Founded by Vivek Padmanabhan, director of Leading Age Services Australia Limited (LASA) NB: previous director of Leading Age Services Australia Limited was Peter John Cosgrove, current Governor General of Australia. [2]
LASA Congress, Adelaide, has approximately 780 delegates attending (October 2014). Note that on this document it states ‘Please note, in accordance with the Privacy Act, some delegates chose not to be included in this list.’ [3]
Regis Health Care Limited : Ian Roberts and Bryan Dorman create $734 million fortune after Regis Healthcare float. [4]
Australian Unity Group increases first half operating earnings by 59%. [5]
Note that Australian Unity Retirement Living Services Limited (with 17 retirement villages/aged care facilities) director Derek McMillan [6] is with ‘Leading Age Services Australia Victoria Limited’ (LASA Victoria) [7]
Japara Healthcare delivers half year profit of $15.8m, on track for prospectus targets. [8]
Quadrant, with $2bn under management, outlaid $90m in October for a majority stake in Victorian provider Estia Health. [9]
The Greens Party, the LCP (Liverpool Care Pathway) and euthanasia
Considering that the Green Party in Victoria, Australia, are aiming to have the Law Reform Commission investigate legislation for ‘voluntary euthanasia’ (April 2015) the following history of the LCP (Liverpool Care Pathway), is pertinent. The LCP (Liverpool Care Pathway) was implemented in the United Kingdom, purportedly to make the lives of those who were terminally ill more comfortable. However, reports in the main stream media with respect to the numbers who were put on this, without terminal illnesses, were worrying (to say the least), and described as ‘horrifying’ in one Daily Mail article [10]
and from The Telegraph
A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.....Just as, in the financial world, so-called algorithmic banking has caused problems by blindly following a computer model, so a similar tick-box approach to the management of death is causing a national crisis in care [11]
P. H. Millard
Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics University of London
Dr Anthony Cole
Chairman, Medical Ethics Alliance
Dr Peter Hargreaves
Consultant in Palliative Medicine
Dr David Hill
Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons
Dr Elizabeth Negus
Lecturer, Barking University
Dowager Lady Salisbury
Chairman, Choose Life
The Green Party and estate taxes:
The Greens policy says its proposed death tax would exempt family farms, small business worth less than $5 million and the family home. They don’t specify a rate, but in the United States their estate tax rate is 55 cents in the dollar. [12]
References:
[1] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261895814/016-Padman-Healthcare-South-Austral...
[2] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261893976/004-Leading-Age-Services-Australia-...
[3] https://www.scribd.com/doc/262022667/043-LASA-Congress-Delegate-List-FIN...
[4] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261895813/015-Ian-Roberts-and-Bryan-Dorman-cr...
[5] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261895809/014-Australian-Unity-Group-Increase...
[6] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261893971/003-Australian-Unity-Retirement-Liv...
[7] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261893979/005-Leading-Age-Services-Australia-...
[8] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261995515/034-Japara-Healthcare-Delivers-Half...
[9] https://www.scribd.com/doc/261996274/035-Quadrant-Circles-Care-Homes
[10] https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/17/the-liverpool-care-pathway-lcp-eutha...
[11] https://www.scribd.com/doc/262292549/078-Dying-Patients-The-Telegraph-le...
[12] http://www.vexnews.com/2010/07/death-tax-greens-party-plans-to-tax-the-d...