Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Reply #3011 –
You need people paying private to take the load off the public system. Its a balancing act, the private system also provides technologies the public can't afford but can access. The private system also trains the next group of specialists under the guidance of what are usually the better skilled private specialists learning the latest techniques.
If you want a fully public system of quality then the government need to double the funding to the public system and charge joe average more medicare levy.
Sorry, I don't agree that the Private health system is more advanced than the Public in this country . The Private system tends to pick and choose what sort of healthcare it provides based on what is financially sustainable, for example it is happy to do knee repairs on footballers because the outcome (and hence the cost) is very predictable. But when it comes to things like little old ladies with broken hips, they tend to shy away simply because it is more difficult healthcare to provide and manage (they send these patients down to the Public hospital who are glad to admit them immediately as 'private' patients).
Many Private medicos still work in the Public system, since this is where they are more likely to have access to cutting-edge technology and research. Governments love buying the latest gizmos (the bigger the better), simply because it gives the pollies a chance to stand next to it on the Sunday news. Privates won't invest until they know they will make money out of it.