9 September

If you want to understand why healthcare has become unaffordable for many, look at this table. And the table even makes things look better than they are, because 30% or more of GPs for example now work part-time. A GP working full-time can earn easily over $300,000 per year. Similarly dentists are missing, they're also largely part-time now, because they earn such exorbitant money and can afford to be. They also hide a lot of income through financial instruments like trusts. Doctors are public servants. They're paid for by taxpayers. They vehemently deny they are that, because public servants normally get no say at all over their own pay. They use a loophole in the Constitution to get away with it. Dentists are also heavily publicly subsidised, through subsidised health insurance. They set their own fees too.