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  • MisterFrog@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    When I hear Australians chime in on posts about American healthcare with: “we have universal healthcare in Australia”, I always remind them.

    No we fucking don’t.

    Outside of hospitals, we have a private subsidy model, with a handful of public sprinkled in.

    And even within hospitals, we have a two tiered system which prioritises people with private health insurance…

    Medicare sucks, for how much wealth we have in this country.