tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880600350163850685.post8429020323165313307..comments2024-01-07T18:42:02.009-05:00Comments on WELCOME TO BALDIE'S BLOG: "Let Them Eat Cake"Hillary St. Pierrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047012304987154704noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880600350163850685.post-56648322108525794612011-02-11T08:02:08.220-05:002011-02-11T08:02:08.220-05:00Having said this, the public system is stressed an...Having said this, the public system is stressed and the hospital sent me a letter thanking me for accessing my private health care when I was an inpatient. My insurance paid for the room. Costs about $600 per night. Drugs that are not on the approved pharmaceutical benefits scheme would cost someone $$$... So we just have to pray that a politician's wife has the same disease...this happened with a breast cancer drug in the mid 00s...the PM's wife got cancer, and hey presto! it was on the list! <br />We have one of the highest, if not the highest, cancer cure rates in the world, and I think it is because we have the social welfare support. It means we don't have to run around baking cup cakes.<br />I also have the luxury of recovering because I don't have to go back to work to keep my insurance. In fact that sounds communist to me.<br /><br />Sending you my best wishes Hillary. Thank you for fighting a good fight, on behalf of my American friends and family.Ozzie girlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880600350163850685.post-78380392982438369072011-02-11T07:49:33.853-05:002011-02-11T07:49:33.853-05:00I've just stumbled across your blog. I would b...I've just stumbled across your blog. I would be completely screwed were I American. I had lymphoma but because I'm from Australia, I didn't have to worry about not being able to afford treatment. I took it for granted that I would have access to every drug that I needed. I opted to access my private health care just as a goodwill thing, but had I chosen to go public, my care would have been exactly the same. <br />I really don't understand why Americans have a problem with universal healthcare. It just doesn't make sense to me. My state government also provided me in-home care for my pre-school aged children. The federal government also subsidises mental health care plans - ie. the government pays for $120 of my $150 psych visits. Up to 18 a year. <br />If I were in America, I'd have to join a church or cult now that I have a pre-existing condition. <br />I would hate it if we went down the American path. <br />I have private health cover, but that is more for elective surgery stuff. My cancer treatment was too serious to be treated in a private hospital, so I went to a tertiary training hospital. <br />Ambulance cover is private - costs up to $400 per call out, but the bill comes after they've taken you to the hospital.<br />I also didn't have to pay for the prophylactic drugs.<br />People here just don't get those crazy tea bagging hatter people. <br />Of course what we don't have in Australia is the latest in biomedical technology, but our government hopefully has plans to increase research/development in this field. We don't have access to clinical trials as you guys do. <br /><br />Thank you for sharing your experience on this blog.ozziegirlnoreply@blogger.com