The main problem with most healthcare consumers these days is that they expect to get all their healthcare needs met for 'free'.

They will flood the few GP surgeries that bulk bill patients, and then complain about long waiting times, or they will go to their local hospital with non-emergency problems and still complain about long waiting times.

Will they expect not to pay their vet for their dogs injections? No.
Will they refuse to pay for the chiropractor to ease their back pain? No.
Will they give up their expensive smokes or alcohol weekly? No.
Will they stop going for that 'cheap' holiday to Bali every year, or update their TV size so they can afford to pay to see GP's? No.

While there is free public hospital treatment in this country for anyone to use, then there will continue to be problems in the public health system.

If only the patients on healthcare cards were allowed to use free public hospital treatment, I doubt all the others would bother going to public hospitals for non-emergency treatment.

This would free up hospital resources and staff to attend to the emergency and elective surgery patients they were meant to concentrate on, instead of attending to the ear-aches and colds suffered by patients who could afford to see GP's.

The best solution is to turn the doctors back into a regulated wages working class, or in other words put them all back on MediCare, which is clearly in the best interests of the majority of people.

When the majority of Australians realise that neither of the 2 major parties truly represent their best interests, then they will vote for someone else who will regulate the drs and lawyers.

Simply, the problem with the health sector is that drs are free to make up there own prices.

I say no to the privatisation, no to fat cats, shareholders and every other irrelevant parasite bleeding the Australian population, with the only exception to that being the individuals who really do have in their hands hot and in demand international grade goods and services and who are adding to the nation's wealth through exports.

Those people are to be rewarded but as for the rest of them, mere functionaries I say which must be regulated if medicine is to be sustainable.

One of the principal problems with the Australian economy is that far too many people are paid far too much to do far too little and consequently access to the law and medicine are not rights but largely privileges of the rich.