i'll explain for americans. in australia we have both public and private healthcare. what happens is government forks over some money, and you pay the leftover. government used to fork over enough that things like going to the gp was basically free, or very cheap. but over the years government has been paying less and less, so even gps have been increasing their fees. shit that used to be free is now not free at all. more and more gps are going private. so "free" healthcare in australia is very much dying, very quickly. yeah we used to have it pretty good, but not anymore.
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