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In Australia it can cost $0, including home visits after hours. The actual cost is between 2% and 3.5% of your taxable income. A person on the average Austral
by femto 3y ago
In Australia it can cost $0, including home visits after hours. The actual cost is between 2% and 3.5% of your taxable income. A person on the average Australian salary of A$90,000/year would pay $A1800/year. For that you get doctors and hospitals (part of a national scheme called Medicare).
An interesting comparison between countries is here:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy-center/countries https://www.commonwealthfund.org/international-health-policy...
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoIt can cost you $0. There is a difference in what you wrote.
- vermilingua 3y agoThat's not even what they said. The very next sentence detailed the personal cost of Medicare.
- vermilingua 3y agoThat "can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, less and less GPs are bulk-billed. We're still better out-of-sight than the US, but under the last govt we started sliding towards privatisation.
- s-lambert 3y agoBulk billing for GP visits seems to be getting rarer though, I looked on Healthengine and there's way less GPs doing bulk billing in my capital city. My last GP visit was ~$50 after medicare.
- swarnie 3y agoIt always amazes me how some places worked out socialised health care and other places really, really didn't. You would expect developed nations to all land within a few percentile of each other on major issues but for whatever reason the gap is enormous here.