The NDIS is being described as a “fiscal sinkhole” as it will soon cost $60 billion a year to run, which is more than the entire defence budget, says Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“The Coalition, in government, wanted to and establish in an objective vetting system, where access to the NDIS was controlled by the government and independent medicos, rather than by the clients’ doctors, and other health specialists,” Ms Credlin said.
“But in a furious reaction from Labor at the time, and the disability lobby, about so-called ‘cuts’, to a service where costs were actually exploding, so not being cut, well that meant this never happened. She questioned if its creator, Disabilities Minister Bill Shorten, has “the will” to “reign in the scheme” before public support for it erodes quickly.
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