Like a mortgage: Aussies are getting ripped off on their health

Australians are paying for their health four times over — once through the Medicare levy, then through their health fund premiums, they must then pay an excess when they use it.And the fourth bill is the most galling of all — the gap fees four in ten people have to pay their surgeons and anaesthetists that their insurance does not cover at all.Proper health insurance, the type that actually covers you for everything, is now so expensive it rivals mortgage payments and is proof the system is…



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