It seems they are designed to funnel you into the arms of corporations. I’ve read that enough youth are just taking the surcharge and loading on the chin that insurers have started to worry. I’ve considered it–the value for money of private insurance is not great.
What we need to to dump the government extortion that is the Medicare Levy Surcharge and the Lifetime Health Cover loading scam.
Yep, exactly this. Force everyone to use Medicare so there’s no political incentive to gut it instead of a two tiered system.
It seems they are designed to funnel you into the arms of corporations. I’ve read that enough youth are just taking the surcharge and loading on the chin that insurers have started to worry. I’ve considered it–the value for money of private insurance is not great.
Perhaps instead of Medicare Levy they should call it Medicare Insurance.
I’m not young, but I’m doing this.
My tiny ideological stand.
And then ban health insurers from using the public healthcare network.