I work with people who come from countries that do not have a health care system similar to Medi-care.

Basically it means that if you cannot afford to pay for health care, you don't get any. In some of these countries, children get polio and have a very limited life. In Australia the last outbreak of polio was in the 50's or 60's.

In Hong Kong, once if there were two people requiring a ventilator, the richest one won, no matter how old. If you were young and poor, you'd miss out.

As I have said; "No health care system is perfect."

The question is do we still want to make health care available and reasonably affordible to all Australian's or do we want to close off access to health care for those who cannot afford it.

Well who would want the American system, which costs more to deliver less.
When NIB demutualised the CEO paid himself $1million management fee and is in talks with American health insurance funds.

The largest health insurer is Medibank Private the next biggest are HBA, HBF which have ties to overseas insurance companies. If the large insurers weren't profitable then there wouldn't be overseas interest.

The sad fact is that sick people are generally not in a position to pay for their health care. If they weren't sick they could work to pay for their health care.

It has to be more complex administratively to get everyone to chose a private health fund and pay them $3000 to pay to the health fund.

This what I think will happen.

Public hospitals will be corporatized.

Medi-bank will be privatised.

Australians will have to take out private health insurance and there will be very little reduction in taxation, mainly because our politicans enjoy pork barrelling and putting their names on the plagues.

The people who get in early with the privatisation of Medi-bank (care) will do very well, and mums and dads investors will be thrown the crumbs.

Private trust funds will do very well, mainly because they distance certain people from scrutiny.