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California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program
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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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We have it decent in Australia, but for the Americans reading on, the bar is so ridiculously low you can walk over it.
I hope one day Medicare can actually be universal, and not the private subsidy model we have currently.
I dunno about you, but finding bulk billing is a pain the arse now, and in certain areas it simply doesn't exist. Not to mention my premium mouth bones which aren't covered for some stupid reason.
I just wish we'd finally kill off private health. Private health is such a scam we only take out because we have a two tiered system and there's a tax discount.
I really don't like Australians talking about how good we have it, when it's kinda meh, and actively getting worse.
That all being said, yeah, the PBS is pretty good and I'm glad insulin is affordable.
Thank Christ we didn't get the Libs back (for American readers, that's the conservative party), we could do SO much better given how wealthy we are per person.
But, anyone who doesn't want to pay more in tax in order to get truly public healthcare doesn't know how to do maths. We could just pay what we pay in private health premiums already, in tax, and we'd probably get way better care per person (because profit is inherently inefficient).
Abolish private health.
Thanks for being accosted with my rant.
100% agree. Dental should be covered.
I don't mind private health existing but it should only exist without all the bs policy to force you into it and without leeching off public funding through tax breaks and Medicare funding.
Bulk billing fortunately doesn't impact me because I see a team at hospital outpatients for almost everything.
Fortunately PBS brings one of my speciality meds down to affordability from a few hundo K per year.
My big gripe at the moment is ndss funding for CGM sensors is non-existent if you aren't type 1. So it's ~100 per fortnight if you want good glucose monitoring but have some non type 1 need for them.
I stopped going to the dentist, it is simply way beyond what my budget can handle. That sucks.
I must be preaching to the choir, but remember this when they don't tax large corps, or propose another tax cut for workers (you and me).
We don't need tax cuts, we need to stop wasting money on subsidising the already wealthy so we can afford to finally abolish private health for good!
(Dentists don't like the sound of this, because they won't be able to charge whatever they like anymore. But tough, my mouth bones aren't a luxury)