The Importance of Private Health Insurance

I've had people with mangled ankles where, you know, fractured hips is a classical one. It's not unusual for fractured necker femurs in the public system to wait three, four, five, six, seven days to have the hip fracture replaced while you're in bed. So I totally agree, if you can afford it, just get it. And it has come in handy, certainly for me, I have private health insurance. We had our children in the private system and we've had family members operated on the private system. But I've also had family members treated in the public hospital for very, very severe conditions. You can actually be a private patient in the public