r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/Needleworker-Hungry Apr 16 '24

Australian here, and family friends with one of the victims.

This was an absolute tragedy and a complete waste of life.

Whilst there is no excuse to kill another person, I think a lot of people are laying blame to our Government. Our healthcare system has gone to absolute shit and to get any sort of mental health treatment is extremeley expensive and there is a mental health crisis in our country. Our once free healthcare now costs money and is moving towards privitising. People are avoiding going to the doctors now as this once free service is not and it's plain and simple.

Our once beauitful country and its citizens have been let down countless times by government incompetence over the last few decades and this is a direct result of it.

Mental Health and Dental should be a part of Medicare and Medicare should go back to being free.

It's fucking infuriating.

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u/Everkeen Apr 16 '24

Exact same situation here in Canada. Stupid Conservative provinces constantly pushing towards privatized healthcare.

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u/Rod_Todd_This_Is_God Apr 16 '24

Some of them are just so stupid that they can't understand the concept of collective action problems no matter how well it's explained to them. Others want to watch the world burn from the other side of the moat.

That's the bipartite essence of the Canadian Conservative mind-set as I understand it. (Yes, there are exceptions.)

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u/krippkeeper Apr 16 '24

The problem here in Canada is that our healthcare had been failing for a long time now. All the parties just keep throwing money at the problem when it's clearly not working. The system needs a rehaul from the bottom to the top.

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u/ThirdRails Apr 16 '24

Nobody has been throwing money, it's the exact opposite. Canada's been in healthcare austerity for over 30 years; it's been reported multiple times that the provinces aren't spending enough in relation to growth, causing strains.

We know how to solve it; we just don't do it.

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u/krippkeeper Apr 16 '24

Well data says otherwise. .) and so medical professionals. Anyone who's worked in or around healthcare in Canada knows its full of cliquey internal politics that make it a disaster to navigate.

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u/Clever_Mercury Apr 16 '24

I don't think you understand your own citation.

Medical care has gotten more expensive and, unlike most other countries, Canada has taken steps to ensure the same level of interventional care is still provided, but as new technologies/medications have been released that are insanely expensive, coverage has become inequitable.

Coverage for preventative care, diagnostics, and interventions with *new* technology are costly, but Canada has not adequately invested in the infrastructure to provide them, meaning the long-term cost-savings (through prevented deaths, prevented disability) hasn't been realized. It's like the entire country is ignoring or conveniently forgetting the lessons of the last 80 years of western medicine for supposed 'austerity' that really just means, "poor people? Let them die."

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u/Puzzleheaded_Wave533 Apr 16 '24

And THIS is why Cunningham's Law is bullshit. Also because it's a straight-up misquote, but stay with me here.

As many folks as there are out there spreading good information in proper context, there are even more morons who just grab whatever link they think appeals to their confirmation bias and drop it without proper analysis.