NT Health Minister John Elferink says money spent treating sick elderly should be spent on babies
By Jesse Dorsett
Updated about an hour ag
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The cost of treating the Northern Territory's elderly has been coming "at the expense" of children, according to NT Health Minister John Elferink, who has been canvassing support for cutting seniors' funding.
He said the money would be better spent in the first year of a person's life.
"The fact is we've pretty much reached the limit of how old we can grow as a species," he told the ABC after the annual Australasian aeromedical conference in Darwin.
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Now this is a very brave man, must have a pretty young demographic in his electorate.
