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.
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.
I stopped going to the dentist, it is simply way beyond what my budget can handle. That sucks.
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