Are You Amazed By What Mr Kelsey Told Us? - I Sure Am.

Besides the amazing lack of insight of the Liberal Senators regarding the issues being raised by witnesses at the Senate Inquiry Into The myHR yesterday afternoon there were two figures that struck me. First was the admission that at least 900,000 citizens had opted out - as those in the paper based opt-out channel were yet to be counted and would add some more. Then Mr Kelsey said that was about 3% of the population who could opt-out - there being that choice for all those that had an Individu al Health Identifier - an IHI. He then said there were about 28 million of those. Given there is only a population of 25 million in Australia, who are the other 3 million? Some are visitors etc. but I bet there are all sorts of duplicates, dead people and so on as well, in what can't be a very accu rate IHI database. I wonder is this due to under-resourcing of the areas that maintain the IHI system. It seems the ADHA really does not even know who it is actually going to 'opt-out' with any... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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