In my attempts to review the topic of "Essay" and practice for my final exam of which a part is to do an essay, I tried to make this draft:

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.