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[fuagf]

rollingrock .. for the umpteenth time to you over the years, Australia has what you will have one day, a decent universal healthcare system .. Canada has one, too .. in Canada i broke my femur, i chose the doctor .. a torn knee cartilage, i chose my doctor .. a fractured skull and deep gash in my wrist, a forest ranger found me unconscious in a ditch 4 miles away from the half-ton pickup i crashed on the Banff-Jasper highway in the Canadian Rockies, 8 hours after the accident, no i didn't choose my doctor (you wouldn't have either) .. i woke up 2 days later in a wonderful (note) private Catholic Hospital in Banff where they had the most magnificent hot-cross buns .. 5 days later back at work on the road construction gang .. in Australia i have had a broken wrist, two hernias, and surgery for prostate cancer .. in each case i chose my doctor .. there is a medical clinic 15 mins walk from where i live, which has about 6 doctors, i have over time chosen to see three different ones and for the last couple of years have chosen to see the same one whom i appreciated the most .. each time i visit it costs me zip, no i don't abuse it, few do .. i have private health insurance which costs me $2106/yr, basically for glasses and dental work, but it enabled me to have my latest hernia and my prostate surgery for free .. hospitals and private health insurance schemes have deals between them .. private health insurance thrives alongside the universal system in Australia.

rollingrock, the above is meant to be about you .. note the underlined .. some old ..

fuagf .. Friday, November 26, 2010 9:59:19 PM
arizona, rotflmao, they would freak in Australia .. YIKES! .. universal healthcare with private healthcare
insurance booming .. sure complaints and problems, but no political party would even hint at tearing it down
.. i've said before it took years of conservative opposition with yelps of .. SOCIALISM!! .. too .. .. little more ..
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rollingrock .. Sunday, March 08, 2009 5:39:34 PM
socialism doesn't work. Never has and never will. I don't mind paying for MY health care but I don't want to
pay yours. I pay MY mortage but I don't want to pay yours. If you want what I have get a job and work for it!
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rollingrock .. Sunday, September 12, 2010 8:21:23 PM
get a job. I don' really want to pay for your healthcare!
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rollingrock .. Sunday, March 27, 2011 1:59:25 PM
there are a lot of us that pay for our own heathcare. I work to do it. The problem is I don't want to pay for
SOMEONE ELSE'S healthcare. And I don't want the government telling me what doctor I can go to. Do you?
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rollingrock, seriously, both plants and animals grow, even thunderstorms change .. babies mostly just giggle,
sleep or cry, children examine their views, teenagers examine and change .. most adults consider changing
circumstances as the world changes, and adjust their views on many things .. you could consider change, too.

Hope you appreciate all those talking to you, i don't notice anyone running and
it's good that you haven't repeated that recently .. no i haven't checked that one.

rollingrock, you get credit for being consitent, but what is the fun is being consistently misguided for you? .. it just doesn't
make sense to continually repeat what is wrong .. OH! .. almost forgot .. this is a repeat i'm sure to you .. excerpt ..

Australia Medicare (Australia)

In Australia, Medibank — as it was then known — was introduced, by the Whitlam Labor government on 1 July 1975, through the Health Insurance Act 1973. The Australian Senate rejected the changes multiple times and they were passed only after a joint sitting after the 1974 double dissolution election. However, Medibank was supported by the subsequent Fraser Coalition (Australia) government and became a key feature of Australia’s public policy landscape. The exact structure of Medibank/Medicare, in terms of the size of the rebate to doctors and hospitals and the way it has administered, has varied over the years. The original Medibank program proposed a 1.35% levy (with low income exemptions) but these bills were rejected by the Senate, and so Medibank was funded from general taxation. In 1976, the Fraser Government introduced a 2.5% levy [NOTE: Fraser was Liberal, that's CONSERVATIVE here] and split Medibank in two: a universal scheme called Medibank Public and a government-owned private health insurance company, Medibank Private.

During the 1980s, Medibank Public was renamed Medicare by the Hawke Labor government, which also changed the funding model, to an income tax surcharge, known as the Medicare Levy, which was set at 1.5%, with exemptions for low income earners. The Howard Coalition [HOWARD LIBERAL, SO CONSERVATIVE, TOO] government introduced an additional levy of 1.0%, known as the Medicare Levy Surcharge, for those on high annual incomes ($70,000) and do not have adequate levels of private hospital coverage. This was part of an effort by the Coalition to encourage take-up of private health insurance. According to WHO, government funding covered 67.5% of Australia's health care expenditures in 2004; private sources covered the remaining 32.5% of expenditures. .. much more on universal healthcare chemes about the world .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#Australia

rollingrock, your 'i don't want to pay for others' is selfish .. most of your other in opposition to
universal healthcare is fanciful, and silly .. which leads me to the other reply i'm about to
give you .. please note in my 2nd reply what others do for Americans .. lolol .. it's cute ..