New national dental scheme announced

With much hoopla the (minority) gov and Greens have announced they will embark on a new era in dental care here, or some shit like that. I get very wary when the pollies start jumping up and down about things saying how good it's all going to be for everyone. Usually it's about saving money, not spending it. And it looks like the same thing again with this.

The chronic disease dental scheme that I've been using (I qualify having HIV) has blown out to $1.9 billion in 4 years, from $377 million. Under the new scheme they're going to shut down this chronic disease scheme in favour of a new national scheme, with the overall money spent by the looks of it being only about half of the present $1.9 billion cost. Of course they're raving about all the good bits, but pretty well leaving me in the dark about the replacement scheme and if I will qualify or not:

The core of the announcement is $345.9 million for dental services for the 400,000 people - most of them concession card holders - who are waiting for care in the public system.

The announcement will also address the shortfall of dental healthcare professionals, including:

$77.7 million for relocation and infrastructure grants for up to 300 dentists who set up practices in rural and remote areas;

$10.5 million for oral health promotion; and

$450,000 for non-government organisations to co-ordinate additional pro-bono work by dentists for disadvantaged people.

The Greens, who made better dental care one of their conditions of support for the Gillard government in 2010, have agreed to the deal.

Greens senator Richard Di Natale said the package was ''the most significant investment in public dental health in decades'' that would ''go a long way to reducing the huge waiting lists in the public system''.

The government will now push ahead with closing the chronic disease dental scheme and will replace it with a new national scheme with stricter guidelines for who is eligible and what kinds of dental care they can receive.
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So what are the "stricter guidelines for who are eligible" going to be? I presently earn a bit too much for a health care card, as there's no criteria involved to take things like rent into account. Sydney is very expensive and eats up a lot of my take home wage. I can only hope that I will in fact qualify under this new scheme. If I don't then it's no more dentist for me, would be completely unaffordable.