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Pat Garcia

To make care homes affordable, the house has to go

The Albanese government must recognise that selling the family home is the lesser evil if its aged care ambitions are to be achieved.

Should the taxpayer fund your accommodation if you can comfortably afford it yourself?

Most would consider the answer obvious. But successive Australian governments have arrived at a counterintuitive conclusion when it comes to residential aged care.

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Pat Garcia is chief executive of Catholic Health Australia.

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