3 July

An Australian family pays 2% of its annual income to fund Medicare. Right now the same average family is also forking out 4-6% of its annual income, in private health insurance. Do we not see how insane this is? They also pay more in the billions of dollars of annual taxpayer-funded subsidies, to the same private health insurance. Subsidised private health insurance was an attempt by successive LNP governments to undermine Medicare. Just as targeted funding to private schools was designed to undermine public schools. Both are working, both public health and education are on their knees. And it’s not about health, or education. It’s about status. The ‘best schools’ are high status schools. People send their kids there so the kids and parents have higher status. Private health cover allows you to ‘jump the queue’ (i.e. lower status people). Like first class seats. Kidult society folks, this is pure life in the playground. Look. Think.