21 April 2017 - Humour me a moment: check your calendar. 2017 right? All good?
But hold on. Not so fast … particularly if you’re in the Australian medical prosthetics business. Over on that side of sleepy swamp the calendar is stuck hard on 2005. George W. Bush is still the US president and they are toe-tapping to the catchy beats of James Blunt and the Pussycat Dolls.
How so, I hear you ask? Well, it’s all down to an arcane government policy called the Prostheses List which right now is raising one hell of a nasty ruckus in the private health sector.