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Topic Started: 29 Dec 2013, 09:27 PM (3,767 Views)
Count du Monet
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By the way, what are they planning to do with the $5? Administering the payment would chew its value?
The next trick of our glorious banks will be to charge us a fee for using net bank!!!
You are no longer customer, you are property!!!

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30 Dec 2013, 07:50 AM
I pay $65k in tax, as an immigrant. What the fuck do you do?
Yeah you're one immigrant, what about the rest.

Dip shit.

Well I don't breed like vermin or steal houses.
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30 Dec 2013, 12:05 AM
You are an idiot. You dont have to earn that much to pay $6000 a year for top health insurance for a family.

Yes I could pay less by down grading my insurance but as a Doctor friend told me, unless your paying for the TOP plans, your insurance is basically a get out of paying an additional tax for not having insurance card policy. You get very marginal benefits and most of your treatments will still be public.

I am also paying for my parents. I know of 2 elderly people who had health issues that the public system deemed were not life threatening. They were put on a waiting list and both died from their non life threatening conditions before they received treatment.

If they keep yanking up the price, the Private system will collapse way before the public system.



Maybe. My premiums would be around double my medicare surcharge, so I pay the surcharge and use the public system once every 2 to 5 years. I'm sorry your families health is such that you need the extra coverage. I didn't realise the public health care system was so awful since I use it so infrequently.

My parents are independently wealthy and can afford their own health insurance/care.

I think if people drop out of the private system, taxes will increase to cover them in the public system. I wouldn't be surprised if the levy and the surcharge are raised further.
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themoops
29 Dec 2013, 10:49 PM

I don't particularly want to pay $5 when all I need is anti biotics or something very simple, which is nearly always the case.
I had a growing suspicion that themoops was clueless, and now am more firm in that suspicion. The GP service is not free. Each time you use the service, the government is billed for $37.50 or whatever, and the doctor gets those $37.50. If you go more often to the doctor (because it is "free" for you and you are not restricted at number of attendances), the doctor gets more money out of the system, and the consequence down the road is that more doctors get hired into the system. Thus, the government money are diverted into paying to the people for attending to your less-important ailments.

Instead, those money could be spend for establishing the R&D and education capabilities. The money could be spent for paying to researchers/engineers in the emerging technology areas, and to educators.
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Frank Castle
29 Dec 2013, 10:43 PM
My bulk billing Doc of about 15 years charged me $50 when I saw her about a year ago whereas my wife still gets bulk billed.
The reason given was they had taken me off the list because I dont get sick/see her enough.

Just as well there's another nearby who bulk bill's that I see now instead.
That's a bargain Frank. My GP charges $70 for a standard consult. Unlike bulk billers you actually get enough time to sit during the consult.

When I've had to see her very regularly over a short period of time she has bulk billed me.

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30 Dec 2013, 01:58 AM
Maybe the government can set up a similar loan scheme for non essential ops, then the hip replacement recipients can do a little dance too?


no because like HECS you will end up with billions in unpaid loans you'll never see a return on for bullshit operations people never needed or will never use.
Count du Monet
30 Dec 2013, 08:22 AM
By the way, what are they planning to do with the $5? Administering the payment would chew its value?
the doctors will charge it. straight in their pocket no admin needed.
Edited by Pig Iron, 30 Dec 2013, 04:25 PM.
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zaph
30 Dec 2013, 03:49 PM
That's a bargain Frank. My GP charges $70 for a standard consult.

When I've had to see her very regularly over a short period of time she has bulk billed me.
For that sort of money I would expect a happy ending.
Edited by mel, 30 Dec 2013, 04:26 PM.
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mel
29 Dec 2013, 11:56 PM
You should never tell women they have pms... even I know that :lol
it was incredibly stupid. she'd been sick for weeks and had a rash.

i've had a fair bit to do with doctors, working for IT related projects for them in my early working life. there are a great number of them who are greedy fuckers who got into medicine to make money, and they treat it like a business and drive up the costs.

the private funds are also to blame, they pay out for bullshit like natural therapies which do sweet fuck all but add cost to the system. if you want a saving, ditch that.
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mel
30 Dec 2013, 04:26 PM
For that sort of money I would expect a happy ending.
Mel, you've been spending too much time in Asia... 70 bucks won't get you a happy ending in oz.
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zaph
30 Dec 2013, 04:32 PM
Mel, you've been spending too much time in Asia... 70 bucks won't get you a happy ending in oz.
i just offered my wife $70 to test this and i can confirm it's not enough.
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