Annals of Medicine Research and Public Health (ISSN: 2995-5955) | Volume 5, Issue 2 | Commentary Article | Open Access
Professor Robyn Cosford*
MBBS (Hons) FACNEM FASLM (retired), Chair, Children’s Health Défense, Australia
*Correspondence to: Professor Robyn Cosford
Fulltext PDFThe National Disability Insurance Scheme is a scheme introduced in Australia from 2015 which ‘insures’ individuals with disability by providing financial support.
In 2011 the Productivity Commission had outlined a model in which NDIS would support just under half a million people and cost $13.6 billion per year, or closer to $20 billion in today's dollars, the aim being to ensure long-term financial sustainability and individualised support for people with disability. At the time of the budget in 2015, it was imagined the scheme would be operational in all states and territories by mid-2018 and cost $19.2 billion in its first full year, and the cost of the NDIS to sit between 0.6 per cent and 0.8 per cent of the Australian economy for decades to come.
Robyn Cosford. Comment: Disability in Australia. The NDIS blow-out. Ann Med Res Pub Health. 2026;5(2):1-8.