I live in Queenstown, Tasmania, which is a remote town on the West Coast of Tasmania and was recently banned in a physical letter I received written by the Area Manager of Ochre Health, the area manageress for the West Coast of Tasmania, a monopoly health care company, from getting any regular health care throughout the entire West Coast of Tasmania

As a result of this unprovoked, inexplicable  administrative fiat by a monopoly health care provider against my life and well-being, my supplies of prescribed medicines are gradually being depleted. 

I am a 68-year old woman and I cannot survive without medicine, and nor could, or should, anyone else. When before in all of human history has anyone ever had the power to do this to a human being before? And why would they have ever done this before? Never, in my opinion!

The government controls the national borders, preventing people from buying medicines from overseas. They control the supply of medicines within Australia (neurotically) and they restrict Telehealth because they say it is only intended  for people who have a regular doctor (which I do not have - not, in fact, any doctor) and so getting Telehealth is very hard for me as well as being very, very expensive. Even if I can get a medicine with Telehealth I can only get one item per consultation (completely arbitrary rules) and so, especially being on an age pension, it is a very expensive way to get medicine, even if I can actually get it. All medicine in Australia is controlled by gatekeepers with the power of life and death over us all. It is a practice that is threatening our lives, which is psychologically humiliating, and which is very dangerous for our health and well-being.

My life has been put at risk by the denial of health care, and so I am pleading for both my own sake, and for the sake of all Australians, for a better health care system - one that all Australians have access to, which is both economically free, and which is also free in terms of universal accessibility; which is fit for purpose, and which is of a much higher quality than it is now. I want an app for health care access; an A.I. app!

This is a cost effective alternative to this healthcare madness and tyranny that is readily available to the government, providing that vested interests in the medical industry are not able to thwart it in order to protect the private commercial interests of its own members, (i.e. the personal and private interests of doctors), which are opposed to the public interest, opposed to the “public interest”, upon which all governance is required to be based. (The alternative to governing in the public interest is nothing but government corruption.)

This alternative, which now lies in plain sight, is to create an app that will allow the general public to access an A.I. doctor, who can diagnose their ailments and prescribe appropriate medicines and provide repeat prescriptions, which can be sent out to their phones as e-scripts, which can then be fulfilled at online pharmacies. Online pharmacies can send out the medicines with free delivery to people’s home addresses very swiftly and efficiently. The whole process can be done on someone’s smartphone, with no travel to a health care centre or pharmacy being involved. As such, it obviates the need for people to take time off from work to see a doctor, and it is extremely modern, convenient, and accessible. People can get health care while lying in bed! And when you are unwell, that is especially the time when you want to get health care from in bed. That is how it should be done and how it can be done.

There can be no question now that A.I. is far more accurate in its diagnoses than doctors.

Obviously, A.I. has access to all the latest medical knowledge and information and an unlimited capacity for researching such libraries of information, unlike doctors, who have out-of-date knowledge and who have very limited ability or time to read information outside of their work-a-day lives. Plus, they are only human. Furthermore, they generally do not have as much time to spend talking to their patients as an A.I. doctor has, whose time is unlimited and free. 

And an A.I. doctor is far more approachable, understanding, and far less threatening when it comes to discussing medical issues of any intimate or sensitive natures. Men, in particular, could benefit from this sensitivity without having to talk to a human, and would be able to take photos with their phone and show any part of their bodies to the A.I. without undressing.

The savings in G.P. consultations alone would be over $13 billion for Australia, and Tasmania’s share of this would be about 1/40th, or about $345 million a year.

In addition, there would be immediate savings to the economy and productivity, as people would not have to take time off of work to see a human doctor any more.

Also, much pressure would be taken off of hospitals, providing the States with additional savings.

And because the accuracy of diagnoses is much, much higher with A.I. and the quality of interviews would be better than those conducted with a busy and relatively ill-informed doctor, life expectancy would rise greatly. Healthy life spans would increase. People would be healthier. And, so, people would be able to look after themselves better in their own homes as we get older rather than needing institutionalised health care in older age, thus saving even more money for everyone and leading to happier more independent older people - and we all get old, so this benefits all of us.

And this app-based approach to health care could be extended to psychological advice, too, as A.I. would greatly exceed humans in that regard as well. There is a high and unmet demand for psychology consultations, which is another social and economic cost to Australia that could be avoided very easily, too. And that would satisfy people’s demands for better personal mental health without drugs.

And all of these economic, convenience, lifestyle and health benefits would begin immediately!

This is 2025, and the Singularity is near. Open A.I. has now achieved A.G.I. with their ChatGPT model o3. Their o1 model (its predecessor, and currently the most advanced A.I.) has just been surpassed by Deep Seek’s R1, which is open source, available free of charge from multiple providers, and which works at a 96% saving over Open A.I., while needing a small fraction of the computer power and storage. It can also be downloaded onto a normal home computer or laptop and run locally instead of being hosted on a big-tech server - and is even better!!!

There is currently a huge level of excitement online about the applications that Deep Seek R1 can open up.

Here is a 10-minute video that shows how this health-care app can be set up for free by anybody. For a saving of over $13 billion a year, along with all of the other health, economic and social benefits we would derive from such an app, which is now so easy to create with A.I., how can the government not now provide myself and all other Australians with quality health care at zero cost (without the Ochre Health health care company and other human doctors, who have so little regard for their Hippocratic Oath to allow this situation, being involved)?

All “we the people” need is permission from the government! In the public interest!