IT has been obvious for some time now that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was becoming a far more expensive proposition than its early proponents - including the Productivity Commission - had acknowledged.
By way of comparison, the general medical insurance scheme, Medicare, has a budget of $31 billion this year. The NDIS, with fewer than 500,000 participants, will cost more than $33 billion and is predicted to hit $50 billion in three years' time.
