Ok Pericles, if myself and the other many thousands of Medibank Private customers are so blind to this conspiracy of ripping us all off, then which private health fund are you with?
I have always had good service from them , so I say good luck to them if they made a profit.

I wouldn't be without Private Health cover, and I believe it should be mandatory to belong to one if you are working.
The days of 'free' health care at public hospitals for those who could afford private health cover should be over.
This country can't afford it anymore...

Well according to the leftists, the State represents society, so they have no ground to criticise anything the government does.

What's the government doing running shops that sell toys, and greeting cards, and nick-nacks? Or TV and radio services for gossake?

There is no justification for the use of force or threats to supply any of these services. All government businesses should be sold, starting immediately with the ABC. Those who want to listen to nauseating propaganda can pay for it themselves.

It has alway been Liberal policy.
Socialism for the rich
Capitalism/sink or swim for the poor.
Expressed openly in Abbott,s parental leave.
$75.000 for a rich working woman to have a child.
For the stay at home mum nothing.
May well be Abbott wants more upper middle class kids not ordarary Aussies.

Now is the time to sell off Abbott. He will never again be worth as much as he is now.

JKJ, who do you want the ABC sold to? Murdock, so you can be feed more of the right wing propaganda that you thrive on, from the criminals at News Corp.
Sell Australia Post. naturally you would want the government to retain the $160 million loosing letter business, would you not. How about privatizing the army? What, no juicy profits in that one.
Hasbeen your a genius, an expert on Medibank Private, 65% over manned no less, do you dream up that number or did space aliens telepathically pass it onto you. Could you give us the same figure for Australia Post.
The conservative ideological mantra; have government establish vital services at taxpayer cost, because capital is unwilling or unable to do so, then when these loosing services becomes profitable businesses sell them of to your "mates" at a bargain basement price. Then when the new owners find the business is "overstaffed" they can sack them or move the jobs offshore, and again the taxpayer can pick up the cost in the form of social security payments.In that way the conservatives can prove their ideology that "governments can't run profitable businesses, best left to private enterprise." of course they can't if all you leave them with is the crap, but even then you can have your "mates" feeding off that crap, by being contractors or service providers at super inflated prices. Good for "mates" bad for taxpayer.

Don't be so silly david f.

In 2023, with a full 10 years successful prime ministership behind him, we will be able to clear what ever is left of Labors national debt, & cover our out goings for half a decade, selling Abbott to the Poms.

Of course if the Poms have had another Labor government by then, they wont be able to afford to buy him. Neither will the yanks, after Obama has finished with their economy, We will probably have to loan him to each in turn, as a kind of extension of the Colombo Plan, our contribution to saving the western world sort of thing.