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Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne tells parliament the government knew the design of its new aged care system would create unaffordable costs.
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00:00The Inspector-General of Aged Care, Ms Siegel-Brown, said before these reforms came to pass that the co-payment
00:09model would see people being denied the access to the care that they need and deserve.
00:15The co-payment model was voted for by the Coalition and the Government, who cooked it up behind closed doors,
00:23and was supported by every member of the crossbench except the Greens.
00:29Pensioners in this country, part pensioners in this country, are making more hardship applications than ever because this system that
00:37was designed, the financials behind the aged care reforms that we now have in place, that were designed behind closed
00:45doors by the Labor Government and the Coalition and voted for in the Senate by the Labor Government, the Coalition,
00:52One Nation Senators and every person on the crossbench, despite the Inspector-General,
00:57warning that they would deprive people of care, it is important that the Australian public understands how we got here.
01:06The Greens agree that we need to reinstate human override into the integrated assessment tool, but make no mistake, pensioners
01:14are suffering because everyone in this chamber except the Greens supported co-payments for aged care.
01:21The Greens agree that we need to have a fair share with the agua living know, and that's the ав'Tro
01:23of a solution thatates them the raw property in this chamber, and so on.
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