Why Australia’s Health Care System is considered the
best?
By Andrea Barajas Escorza
Medicare was introduced in Australia back in 1984
and this service covers universal access to free treatment in public hospitals
and now it is sometimes used to describe the Australian Health Care System.
Medicare has been an important service because of the access to free treatment.
Yet today, this service supporting a chronic
disease or mental illness. On the other hand, Australia such as member of the Commonwealth,
provides to its population public hospitals, medical services and
pharmaceuticals.
Australia
has a Federal System of government, furthermore, his national government is
part of the Commonwealth, as a result, the Federation has to support the health of its
population with an important division of responsibilities and roles across
levels of government.
Health
indicators are strong, for example Australian life expectancy is the third
longest in the OECD. Nonetheless, there are concerns in common with many
developed countries, such as the ageing of the population, rising levels of
obesity, the prevalence of mental illness, and the burden of chronic diseases.
Due to the fact that public
hospitals are operated by the State and Territory Governments, which also
deliver a variety of mental health, dental, school health and community health
programs. For example, the Australian Government provides financial
support to help people with a chronic medical condition. If you are eligible,
you can also claim an early release of superannuation. Another kind of services
that Medicare provides are: free or subsidised treatment by health
professionals such as doctors, specialists, optometrists and specific
circumstances dentists and other allied health practitioners. Generally, 75% of
the Medicare Schedule fee for services and procedures. As regards of the
agreements with the Commonwealth, all Australians have free access to treatment
in all cases that the person need it.
Even in spite of public hospitals receive public
patients, they can also admit private patients, who may face a range of out of
pocket charges. The case of private patients is a singular one because, if they
comes from a private hospital, the patient can’t choose the doctor, but, if the
patients comes from a public hospital, they get a treating doctor assigned by
the hospital.
Private health insurance funds highly regulated,
insurance can cover private treatment in hospital and out of hospital services
not covered by Medicare. For instance, on July 1, 2012, access to the rebate
has been means tested, with the full 30% applying only to individuals with
annual income less $84,000 and families less than $168,000.
Medicare system of Australia is
one of the best services Australians, because support the health of population
reducing effectively the costs of the medical services, although the
percentage is destined to medical services, the entire population has benefits
from it, however, it is given priority for patients with chronic diseases.
