Comment on Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform

• Mountaineer@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve read that enough youth are just taking the surcharge and loading on the chin that insurers have started to worry.

  I’m not young, but I’m doing this.
  My tiny ideological stand.

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• sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t believe that it took me until now to realise that the Medicare levy is just an insurance premium except with a government insurer.

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  • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah like I get why I’m paying for it, I couldn’t see a reason to go private and every year the gov tacs on a bigger disincentive

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