Billy Poobah Lives

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It’s not perfect and the vertical fiscal imbalance between the Commonwealth (that’s our fancy word for Federal) and State governments is a nuisance for funding public hospitals run by the states however UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE RULES.

Just one of the reasons I’m glad to be Australian and it’s the reason I can work as a health professional knowing every citizen has access to healthcare. - Nurse Lyall

Funnily enough, I wrote a big spiel about this yesterday but it got all rambly so stuck it in drafts. Exactly what Lyall said. It has it’s faults and challenges but I’m really proud of the world-class health care delivery we all get.

I’ll third that motion.

••• Here’s why the US is still a 3rd world country when it come to health care… a few days back the NY Times wrote an article about a man who had to file bankruptcy because he couldn’t pay the $200,000+ hospital bill. Oh, he had health insurance but the fine print basically said they didn’t cover things to do with the heart — or something like that. WTF? —BP