I don’t mind private health existing but it should only exist without all the bs policy to force you into it and without leeching off public funding through tax breaks and Medicare funding.
Bulk billing fortunately doesn’t impact me because I see a team at hospital outpatients for almost everything.
Fortunately PBS brings one of my speciality meds down to affordability from a few hundo K per year.
My big gripe at the moment is ndss funding for CGM sensors is non-existent if you aren’t type 1.
So it’s ~100 per fortnight if you want good glucose monitoring but have some non type 1 need for them.
Oh damn, that must suck (regarding the glucose monitoring)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I do have one extra Response:
I don’t mind private health existing but it should only exist without all the bs policy to force you into it and without leeching off public funding through tax breaks and Medicare funding.
The problem is that the private health model in our country only works with tax breaks and Medicare funding.
If we made them ACTUALLY compete with Medicare (i.e., if you have private health cover, you’re no longer eligible for Medicare), the business model would collapse.
I for one, propose this as a method for killing it off.
After almost 20 years of big L Liberals in Aus, we should just consider ourselves lucky we still have Medicare. I want dental too, but I also want them to repair the basic model first
100% agree. Dental should be covered.
I don’t mind private health existing but it should only exist without all the bs policy to force you into it and without leeching off public funding through tax breaks and Medicare funding.
Bulk billing fortunately doesn’t impact me because I see a team at hospital outpatients for almost everything.
Fortunately PBS brings one of my speciality meds down to affordability from a few hundo K per year.
My big gripe at the moment is ndss funding for CGM sensors is non-existent if you aren’t type 1. So it’s ~100 per fortnight if you want good glucose monitoring but have some non type 1 need for them.
Oh damn, that must suck (regarding the glucose monitoring)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I do have one extra Response:
The problem is that the private health model in our country only works with tax breaks and Medicare funding.
If we made them ACTUALLY compete with Medicare (i.e., if you have private health cover, you’re no longer eligible for Medicare), the business model would collapse.
I for one, propose this as a method for killing it off.
By making them compete, hehe
I stopped going to the dentist, it is simply way beyond what my budget can handle. That sucks.
I must be preaching to the choir, but remember this when they don’t tax large corps, or propose another tax cut for workers (you and me).
We don’t need tax cuts, we need to stop wasting money on subsidising the already wealthy so we can afford to finally abolish private health for good!
(Dentists don’t like the sound of this, because they won’t be able to charge whatever they like anymore. But tough, my mouth bones aren’t a luxury)
After almost 20 years of big L Liberals in Aus, we should just consider ourselves lucky we still have Medicare. I want dental too, but I also want them to repair the basic model first
Our of curiosity, what does this look like in your view?