{"id":1571,"date":"2014-05-14T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthritisaustralia.com.au\/wordpress\/short-sighted-budget-cuts-will-increase-health-costs-in-the-long-term-media-release-14-may-2014\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:02:33","slug":"short-sighted-budget-cuts-will-increase-health-costs-in-the-long-term-media-release-14-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/short-sighted-budget-cuts-will-increase-health-costs-in-the-long-term-media-release-14-may-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-sighted budget cuts will increase health costs in the long term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal budget\u2019s cuts to health are a false economy which will force more people to go without essential medical care, leading to poorer health outcomes and driving higher costs to the health system in future, Arthritis Australia warns.<br \/>\nTo view the entire media release\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arthritisaustralia.com.au\/images\/stories\/documents\/news\/2014\/140514_short_sighted_budget_cuts_will_increase_health_costss.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"leading-0\">\n<p>\u201cHitting patients with increased costs for doctor\u2019s visits, tests and medicines may improve the budget bottom line in the short term, but could prove counterproductive in the longer term, by stopping people going to the doctor or taking medicine when they need to,\u201d said Ainslie Cahill, CEO of Arthritis Australia.\u00a0 \u201cThis is likely to lead to more expensive complications and hospitalisations down the track.\u201dMs Cahill said those most in need of care would be the hardest hit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<samp><em>Reviewed and updated May 2014<\/em><\/samp>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal budget\u2019s cuts to health are a false economy which will force more people to go without essential medical care, leading to poorer health outcomes and driving higher costs to the health system in future, Arthritis Australia warns. To view the entire media release\u00a0click here \u201cHitting patients with increased costs for doctor\u2019s visits, tests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}