The care economy doesn’t need robots and AI to ‘save’ it, thank you

After focusing on how the maintenance economy has shredded Australia’s productivity in recent months, Interim Report of the Productivity Commission The more efficient delivery of maintenance services may seem like a moist squib. However, it offers a reality control to Blowhards, who insists on the government’s fake care work by investing in fake maintenance.

For beginners, PC, commentators and economists are ignored when they queuing to suppress the efficiency of the labor intensive care economy: what we are really interested in quality “Multi-factor productivity in the hospital sector has grown by 0.1% annually between 2008-09 and 2018-19, which is below an average growth of 0.7% per year in the market sector. “Nevertheless, over time, the quality of some care and the consequences of patients has improved significantly.”

For example, when set for quality, it left behind a larger economy, which constitutes approximately one-third of productivity increased-health expenditures for a subset of the health sector, and increased approximately 3% per year between 2011-12-12 and 2017-18.

In other words, “Australians get better results, but it’s not more care service per dollar.” This shows that some of the “productivity crisis olan caused by the growth of the maintenance economy are not in the maintenance economy, but about productivity. So, in 1995, you prefer to be treated for cancer rather than.

However, this is a bit lucky, because the PC does not have much excitement in terms of increasing productivity in the maintenance economy. He proposes to focus and invest in health, so old that he has old Babylon tablets that detail the health savings to be obtained from people who lead healthier lifestyles.

In addition, ABORİJIN, which will work much closer to meet local hospital networks, primary health networks and summarizing needs, starts with community controlled healthcare institutions and proposes a more combined approach for planning, supplying and evaluating maintenance services in local areas.

Probably the suggestion will have the most impact: PC is a much more unitary accreditation, safety and quality editing system working in the maintenance economy – especially in the maintenance services of elderly care, disability and veterans who share many features and providers.

While some unifying efforts have been made since 2020, the PC proposes a six -year way to a single worker and provider evaluation process, a single system for registration and audits, a single AI regulation policy among the maintenance sectors, as much regulatory as possible, and perhaps a single regulatory.

His depth Unglamorous things. There is no great tax reform or large government investment for a four -day week. However, if it is obtained, it will offer material gains and lower costs for maintenance service providers.

However, it is also sensitive to political intervention. As soon as a more combined regulatory frame or regulator is perceived to fail, the repression reorganizing the system from the media and the public and therefore politicians. Look at the reactions from parents who are horrified to the revelation of the existing, highly miserable child care regulatory regulatory regulatory.

However, this is the area that employs people who are serious in productivity. While OP-ED writers and economists lament the shyness of large paintings, generation reforms and politicians, the hard work is under the hood of individual sectors-the productivity and financing systems, productivity and financing systems, when added, to represent a significant decrease in costs without affecting maintenance quality.

Of course, you can get robots to remove efficiency. “However, new technologies, new technologies reveal large gains to labor productivity, while improving maintenance quality and reducing costs, PC says PC. However, when you read what the authors are actually, big gains seem to be “released” very limited: “AI sages can reduce the time they spend for reporting, while robots can perform routine tasks such as living things and logistics.” Wow.

This did not stop Financial review – The maintenance economy is a wide monster that must be thrown into the gloomy pits of darkness – declare: “Robots can create major gains in the maintenance economy”. However, the visions of all these frustrating women care workers, which are changed with more efficient machines, are unlikely to enter too many parents or disabled people or veterans, and even the first robotic creatures may not survive to ignore an attacked and expired patient.

What is an alternative? Investment in health and elderly care and disability care and child care? You have a US -style health system, go back to the Kero Baths for the elderly, leave the Australians with disabilities to defend them for themselves and send women back home to look at children? This would not create wonders for productivity.