The distribution of funding would depend on hospital activity and states may not score their ‘population share’,a Treasury official has told a Senate hearingA Senate committee has revealed the government has not yet worked out the carve-up of $2.9bn of health funding promised to the states, as well as a lack of preparation for a controversial proposal for states to levy their own income taxes.
Appearing before a Senate committee scrutinising the 1 April Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting, or government officials said the allocation of the $2.9bn had not been finalised.
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Source: theguardian.com