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309 private health insurance
Dev Raga Personal Finance
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In Australia, we have what we think is universal health care but we actually don't have universal health care. The Medicare system on the other hand is not state funded. It's more of a federal public insurance scheme. So if you attend a local hospital, which is public, the funding is not federal. It comes from the state coffers. If you attend your general practitioner or non-GP specialist for a consultation and get a Medicare rebate, that rebate is not from the state system but it's actually from the federal Medicare scheme. Now where does private health insurance fit in all of this? It's when you seek health care in a completely private health system. Health care can be a procedure
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