If medical assistance was available from a supermarket and comes in a bottle, i would agree with you.
But medical being what it is, i am glad for all australians that we have medi care.
No one knows when they will be struck down, weather you are 2 years old or 82 years old.
NZ has national health and england has national health. The US has a system of dying is cheaper than medical. And we have a system of medi care and private health.
Our citizens demanded medi care, as a basic service.
There is nothing to stop anyone from having private health cover.
The two systems run together quite well.

I also am very grateful for Medicare.
However, I do have private health cover as well.
I have had it ever since I first entered
the workforce. The same as I have
ambulance cover. I believe in being prepared for
any emergency. And for me the systems seem to work
rather well. I can't complain. Certainly not when
I compare it with my friends in the UK and the US.
I think we're indeed lucky in this country.

I think we're indeed lucky in this country.

Yes Lexie, but for how much longer.

You see approximately 52% of tax payers,( not population) prop up the likes of Medicare, as the remaining 48% or so receive more in welfare assistance than they pay in taxes.

Now given our budget is in a dire situation, one has to ask where the money will come from to continue funding the likes of Medicare, as the tax payers dollars are no longer sufficient to pay the bills, thanks largely to labor's missmanagement and reckless spending.

Furthermore, the increase in the number of illegals that has occurred in the past six months is likely to continue under this government, and my understanding is that this increase has not been accounted for in any forward estimates.

So Medicare is but one service that will be under extreme preasure.

And don't forget, Julia still has her NDIS scheme and her education pipe dream on the table, and they too have to be funded, FROM NOTHING.

I say FROM NOTHING as we are borrowing to pay for the illegals debacle that labor have so cleverly created out of sheer incompetence.

The simple math will tell you, there simply is not enough (taxes) to go round. So I suggest we brace ourselves and get ready for some serious cut backs.

Rehctub,

Agree with you, but suspect the cuts won't come until after the election, and if Libs win, they'll get the blame for implementing what will be inevitable.

Anyone with half a brain can see what is looming on the horizon, including Gillard and Swan. However, these two can make any negative sound like a positive.

Question is, how many will continue to swallow their never ending outright lies and broken promises?

Yes WW it's called short sightedness, like once Kennet turned Victoria around, they dumped him, or like how well we were traveling prior to Kevin 07, when anyone who wanted a job, had one and the word underemployment had not yet been invented.

Of cause they all blame work choices, but seriously, only the lazy were afraid of WC, because good workers didn't take crap, cause they didn't have to.

But that doesn't really belong to this thread.

Come he'll or high water, whoever is landed with the job of fixing this mess, will be caught between a rock and a hard place.