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Originally Posted by zipping
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Just so you know Australia spends less than 10% of GDP on healthcare, about the same as other OECD Countries. Every Australian citizen is covered by our system.
The USA spends over 17% of GDP on healthcare, one the most expensive systems in the world. 44million US citizens have no health insurance and 38million have inadequate health insurance.
How is it that the USA can pay so much for healthcare and get such a bad outcome? Allowing the 'market' to determine the cost of healthcare Americans are over charged and over serviced. Without government regulation in healthcare, that every other modern democracy has, Americans are getting ripped off by big business maximising profits.
Is universal Medicare and a Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, sensible Government policy or the slippery Socialist slope to world domination?