Social healthcare?

[Seshat]

-To be eligible for a low-income health-care card, generally if you make a certain amount over a 2 month-period, you can qualify. However the form alone for said card is 60 pages long (and no, it's not all filler)

I skipped most of the form (probably because I'm on a pension and have little additional income).

-Dental care still needs to be worked on BADLY. Even with health insurance, you're looking at around $300 a pop.

If you have a disability, you can qualify for disability dental: I pay nothing for dental.

[Mishi]

-Dental care still needs to be worked on BADLY. Even with health insurance, you're looking at around $300 a pop.

I agree that it needs to be worked on and while I disagree with a lot of the Greens policies, I really like the National Dental plan that they floated a few weeks ago. I'm really lucky to have found a dentist that is both good and reasonably priced. I don't have private insurance and it only cost $270 for two fillings (one of those was a removal of the amalgam filling + refilling the tooth) and he did a good job with the anaesthesia as well as giving me plenty of breaks to rest my jaw.

The thing that I really like about our public health system is that it makes life easier and much cheaper for us. I had both of our kids in a public hospital with a nurse-midwife team, a home-style birth and an early discharge. Ultrasounds, vaccinations, hearing tests, heel-prick tests and home visits from midwives: all paid for by the system that we pay our taxes into. When Bubbles needed x-rays to be sure that she had a chest infection and not pneumonia, they were bulk-billed. Whn Jazzy smacked her head while learning to walk, we took her into the hospital just to be safe and didn't have to worry about any bills. When Rugz had an eye injury and visted A & E, all of the care was covered. To be honest, I can't imagine what life would be like without social healthcare.

[Zod]

We're here on a mission and we can't do that mission if people get sick and have to deal with financial issues preventing them from getting better.

But the way it works is, if you get sick, you get taken care of and that's that.

That's pretty much the theory behind socialised medicine.

Is it accurate to say that you get your health care from a goverment run hospital : and it comes cheap due to the belief that society ( your base ) is stronger if everyone has access to healthcare?

[bara]

Kneel to Zod!

(sorry, movie reference obligatory)