The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies
The Coalition has also walked away from plans to sack 41,000 public service employees, raising questions about how it will pay for major election policies
I know Australia has public healthcare, but is it literally called “Medicare”?
Yeah it is.
I just had a quick look because I thought the Australian term would pre-date the american one but it doesn’t aparently we copied it from you.
It should’ve been Medicaus or mediroo or something.
Yep. medicare.gov.au Aussies all have a Medicare card which we show at medical appointments to handle the billing. Not everything is free but a lot is covered. I just had an ultrasound for a hernia and it didn’t directly cost me anything.
Yes it is. The first version introduced in the 70s under Whitlam was called Medibank but the Fraser government fucked that up. So the Hawke government reintroduced universal health care as Medicare in the 80s and Medibank persisted as a weird government owned private health insurer which Abbott privatized.
oh, yes its literally called Medicare. Since the mid 1980s
Yes, but unlike the American Medicare, ours is universal healthcare.