What exists in Australia is exactly what the US has: private payers that get preferential access, and then Medicare for the poor/everyone else. People avoiding appointments they cannot afford. Psi service refusing to take Medicare patients. Unavailable pharmaceuticals in Australia that one can easily access in the US. You even have US-style HMOs.
It’s just a US-lite system compared to Canada (which like Cuba outlaws private healthcare, but has a grey healthcare market because the public system is broke), and NHS(which is broke like Canada, but at least you can pay private).
1) Patients avoiding appointments due to costs, just like the US:
“Almost impossible to get bulk billed’: patients avoid seeing doctors due to out-of-pocket costs”
2) Private healthcare where cash suddenly trumps virtue-signalling on the internet.
Paying cash money? Jump the queue! The poor can languish and die while on waitlists.
“Public patients requiring elective surgery for cancer, heart conditions and other serious health issues face longer waiting times than their privately insured counterparts in public hospitals, according to a new report. ”
In some cases, physicians don’t even take any Medicare patients -at all-.
Let’s take a rather relevant specialty for this thread, psychiatry:
“Psychiatry costs in particular are prohibitive. One reader reported paying $300 for 20 minutes with a psychiatrist, while another said they paid $900 for the first session and $500 for subsequent sessions. Another reader said her one-hour psychiatry session cost $435, and the Medicare rebate “didn’t even cover half”. Another reader, Jamie, said she had paid $220 and received $76 back from Medicare, but that her initial appointment was $600.”
Congrats! You are paying American rates! Good job Australia!
My goodness, isn’t this a huge surprise! Highly trained people want to get paid even in Australia, news at 11. Who could’ve guessed.
Money talks. It’s that simple. Why is that so hard to accept?
Engineers used to move to Bay Area to get the best possible salaries, but we should suppress doctors who even as much attempt to move overseas for bigger pay checks, lol?
It’s just a US-lite system compared to Canada (which like Cuba outlaws private healthcare, but has a grey healthcare market because the public system is broke), and NHS(which is broke like Canada, but at least you can pay private).
1) Patients avoiding appointments due to costs, just like the US:
“Almost impossible to get bulk billed’: patients avoid seeing doctors due to out-of-pocket costs”
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/12/almos... Private healthcare is better in Australia:
2) Private healthcare where cash suddenly trumps virtue-signalling on the internet.
Paying cash money? Jump the queue! The poor can languish and die while on waitlists.
“Public patients requiring elective surgery for cancer, heart conditions and other serious health issues face longer waiting times than their privately insured counterparts in public hospitals, according to a new report. ”
https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/wellbeing/2017/12/06/private...
3) Refusal of public patients.
In some cases, physicians don’t even take any Medicare patients -at all-.
Let’s take a rather relevant specialty for this thread, psychiatry:
“Psychiatry costs in particular are prohibitive. One reader reported paying $300 for 20 minutes with a psychiatrist, while another said they paid $900 for the first session and $500 for subsequent sessions. Another reader said her one-hour psychiatry session cost $435, and the Medicare rebate “didn’t even cover half”. Another reader, Jamie, said she had paid $220 and received $76 back from Medicare, but that her initial appointment was $600.”
Congrats! You are paying American rates! Good job Australia!
https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/19/like-...
My goodness, isn’t this a huge surprise! Highly trained people want to get paid even in Australia, news at 11. Who could’ve guessed.
Money talks. It’s that simple. Why is that so hard to accept?
Engineers used to move to Bay Area to get the best possible salaries, but we should suppress doctors who even as much attempt to move overseas for bigger pay checks, lol?