“The shocking evidence displayed on 4 Corners last night suggesting some specialists allegedly rorting the system is an indictment of the Federal Government”, said Dr Tim Woodruff, president, Doctors Reform Society. “Whilst busy giving tax cuts to millionaires and tax evading corporations, the Federal Government underfunds public hospitals and primary, dental, and mental health care in its continuing ideological plan to increase private health care. It forces the desperate to take out private health insurance or wait for years for a public hospital bed, and even to take out small loans to see a specialist in the community instead of waiting a year for a public hospital appointment. It then wastes $11 billion a year propping up this private health industry knowing that out of pocket costs are hurting patients across the country.”