Greens holding out for a deal on dental care
The Australian Green Party is holding out for a deal on dental care, which could cost the government millions of dollars.
When the Labor party did not win a majority vote, they asked the Green Party to come on board to form coalition government; at the time, the Green party proposed four key policies they wanted the new government to address and dental care was one of them.
Dental care has been something of a nightmare for the Gillard government; many healthcare reforms and changes have already been outlined but critics have slammed the government for failing to target problem areas including dentistry and mental health.
Although dental care has received little attention thus far, the Greens are still hoping that their idea to set up a universal Medicare style system for dentistry will be given the go ahead. The total cost of the scheme would be somewhere between 5 and 11 billion pounds but the party are happy for the system to be introduced gradually, spreading the cost over a number of years.
Dental care is the last of the Green’s policies to be addressed by the government; their other key requirements, which included a full parliamentary debate on the war in Afghanistan, a study to look at the creation of high speed rail networks and the creation of a committee to decide and set the price of carbon, have all been addressed by the Labor party.
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