The Australian Medicare system costs each taxpayer about 2.5% of their income.
If you're on some form of welfare, doctors are as good as free and there's a cap on how much you have to pay for medication.
But, unless you have private health cover, you don't get to see the doctor you want and you get to wait in a long queue for non-emergency treatment. So, instead of MRI next week, MRI in a few months.
Heart needs a bypass? Wait. Cancer? That'll get you straight in.
I have private cover, just so I can see the doctor I want to see when I need to see that doctor.
Private cover plus Medicare still leaves a great big gap.
If you're on some form of welfare, doctors are as good as free and there's a cap on how much you have to pay for medication.
But, unless you have private health cover, you don't get to see the doctor you want and you get to wait in a long queue for non-emergency treatment. So, instead of MRI next week, MRI in a few months.
Heart needs a bypass? Wait. Cancer? That'll get you straight in.
I have private cover, just so I can see the doctor I want to see when I need to see that doctor.
Private cover plus Medicare still leaves a great big gap.
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