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Sure but you’re still paying for people’s poor health. Insurance administration costs, charging insured patients more to cover uncovered patient costs, increased equipment costs due to increasing demand from an increasingly unhealthy population, high doctors salaries because of skills shortages, the list goes on. There is simply no way to isolate yourself from the cost of other people’s health choices.

A fully privatised system gives the illusion of choice and isolation.




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