Re:Working for someone vs. doing your own thing
by chadcmulligan on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:20PM
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The US actually spends more per capita on health care than Australia both public and private https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
Re:Working for someone vs. doing your own thing
by m0zg on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:12PM
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Yes. And US doctors make more "per capita" than Australian doctors. About twice as much. If they continue making more, I don't see how paying their billing rates from the taxes addresses the "affordability" problem. If you were to fix billing rates at a lower level (through single payer and such), you wouldn't really have any doctors to begin with, at least not for a while.
That said, healthcare in Australia in fact is cheaper than in the US, but not as much cheaper as you think it is.