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On Sat, 29 Oct 1994, Anne L. Potter wrote: > Your answer brings up another question: Where were the insurance cos. > lurking in your nationalized plan? Or were the transnationals ready to > pounce? The aim of Medicare is to provide essential health care to all via a nationalised health care levy collected at the time of submission of the income tax return. In other words, the scheme is a nationalised health insurance system without the problems of having to justify claims. If it's covered, it's covered. The role of the insurance companies is to provide the icing on the cake for those who can afford to pay for it. These "private health insurance schemes" include the government run "Medibank". In theory they are supposed to cover everything which Medicare does not. In practice they cover only a portion of it ... and it seems to be getting smaller.