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I'm not sure where you got that Australian bankruptcy fact but Australia has had universal healthcare since 1975 (and maybe before not sure of the scheme before

• cam_l 6y ago
  I got it from a talk by a professor of public health, Jim Gillespie. So sorry, no links. Take it as you will. You are right, it was a long time ago. But the 1975 system was brought in the by the Whitlam government was only universal in that it brought in a single payer system, but not free and not unrestricted. (Before that we had a hodge-podge not unlike the US before the ACA.) After the coup against Whitlam, the subsequent government further restricted or watered that system down, until Hawke brought in a universal healthcare system in 1984, medicare. Still, with each period of right wing government in australia, we still seem to get a slow death by a hundred cuts to the medicare system (medicare levy, indexation freezes, closing of bulkbilling clinics etc etc etc).