Better Call Saul
I work in mining. A FIFO catering company can feed three hot meals daily to a couple of hundred big hungry miners for ~35 to 40 dollars a day per person. People who will come in after a 12.5 hour shift and loudly announce that the food is shit, if the food is shit, so you need to bring a pretty decent catering game.
And this mob, in town, can’t feed elderly people - who usually eat like birds - a couple of hot breakfasts a week without having to break out the surcharges?!
That entitles them to two hot breakfasts a week, a daily extra-hot meal option at lunch, a dessert at lunch and a beer, wine or soft drink with lunch and dinner.
Even paying $42 a day still only gets them two hot breakfasts a week.
They’re all like this. My grandpa is at an Estia Health and they’re only meant to take 85% of his aged pension. Add up all the fees and shit and it’s more like 115%. The fees are also named in a broad way so you don’t know what they cover, so you don’t know what you’ll miss out on if you opt out.
Just one of many industries that needs to be completely state run. The government pays for most of it anyway, all the extra costs just goes to the private equity firms that run the places.
Are there any aged care providers that aren’t scumbags?
For profit ones, no, they are all bad. Local community run child and aged care is the only way to go.
