HEALTH COACH - Scott Morrison warns against spending cuts to pay for budgetary reparations for health and education | News from Australia

HEALTH COACH -

 Scott Morrison warns against spending cuts to pay for budgetary reparations for health and education | News from Australia   
 

 Scott Morrison warned that the government will "pay" increased spending in Tuesday's budget with corresponding savings elsewhere. 
 Treasurer comments at Channel Nine Sunday suggest that the Coalition's efforts to reverse unpopular cuts in the 2014 budget, through increased spending in schools and early thawing Medicare reimbursement, Will require cuts in other areas. 
 Morrison and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann have also ruled out other measures to increase revenues. As part of the reports, the government is considering extending the surtax Sickness insurance. 

 
 In a Sunday interview with Laurie Oakes, Morrison empathized with families that he said faced price hikes and "are under a lot of stress because they are" They did not see the wages rise ". 
 He said the budget would reflect that there were "better days ahead" and would be guided by the principles of equity, opportunity and security. 
 The government hopes to use Tuesday's budget to finally be inspired by the extreme austerity of the 2014 budget, notably by withdrawing more than $ 10 billion from non-legislative cuts. 
 On Tuesday the government announced a $ 2 billion increase in funding for schools over four years and it is expected in the budget to commit to unblock Medicare reimbursement after Labor's powerful campaign on Health in the 2016 elections. 
 The budget should include a housing affordability package, including the restructuring of the national affordable housing agreement and helping first - time buyers accumulate increased deposits and infrastructure expenditures , Including for the Inland Railways and Badgerys Creek Airport. 
 Morrison confirmed that the budget will contain payments of $ 75 for single parents and single retirees and $ 125 for couples on pensions to be paid before June 30, part of an agreement reached with Nick Xenophon to compensate them for price increases in electricity. 
 He stated that Health Minister Greg Hunt had consulted doctors and health professionals since his appointment in January and the government had "worked hard to ensure that we can provide support In this budget for a healthy Australia ". 

 
 The treasurer said the budget was about "good choices" and that the world economy was showing encouraging signs of recovery, the Australian government should aim to increase the economy and " To provide services on which Australians depend ". 
 "And Medicare and the [pharmaceutical benefits scheme] are essential services. We have worked a lot on this field." 
 When asked if supplementation with health insurance tax would be extended to those with private health insurance, Morrison refused to comment on "speculation". 
 He said in the budget that he "would look after the needs of working Australians", repeating the mantra of the 2016 coalition elections to help create "jobs and growth" . 
 Asked if the government had narrowed its ambitions on housing affordability, Morrison said he did not rescind the expectation that the budget would help the homeless, tenants and those who Save to buy a home. 
 "I do not agree with the cynics who say that the Commonwealth government can not make a difference in this area," he said. 
 Asked if anyone was feeling the pain of budget cuts, Morrison replied, "You have to pay what you spend. 
 "All our budgets as a Coalition have always encountered additions in spending with budgetary improvements otherwise." 
 ABC insiders, Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen, said that increased spending on health and education meant that the government "was adopting a pale imitation of Labor policy in order to save Malcolm Turnbull's leadership ". 
 He stated that the government "was trying to close down the problems" on which the campaign had been campaigning as it "abandoned the fight against the deficit". 
 "The team that brought you the debt and deficit catastrophe now brings you good and bad debts," he said in reference to the government's plan to record separately the debt used for Pay the capital and infrastructure. 

 
 Bowen said the work would not give the government a "pat on the back" for a "partial decline" of the thaw of Medicare's refund or its education policy that still spends $ 22 billion Of dollars less than the work had proposed over a decade. 
 He said the work would examine any proposal to extend the tax on the health care levy, but described it as a tax increase that contradicted the A previous message from the Coalition that the budget did not have an income problem. 
 In an earlier interview on Sky News, Cormann refused to exclude that the May 9 budget contain tax increases. 
 Cormann confirmed a report that the government would provide a $ 2.3 billion road and railway infrastructure package to Western Australia, including a $ 1.2 billion redirection initially planned For the Perth Freight Link to other road projects and the Metronet Rail Project which was the centerpiece of WA Labor's successful electoral ground. 
 A report published in Sunday Telegraph suggests that the government should also spend $ 350 million on veterans in the budget.