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Does australia have universal health care?

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Medicare is Australia's universal health care system, which is the primary health scheme that subsidises most medical costs in Australia for all Australian citizens and permanent residents. ... Medicare is financed by a Medicare levy, which is compulsory and administered through the tax system. read more

Health care in Australia is delivered as a mixed system: universal health care (public) and private providers (insurance). The majority of Australia's health care is provided publicly (hospitals and primary health care eg General Practitioners) with the remaining provided by the private sector (private hospitals, allied health care such as physiotherapy and dental). read more

Australia's Health Care System Posted by Tim 09/17/2010, 12:56 PM Correction, the government does not pay for universal, publicly-funded health care, the people do in the form of taxes. Throughtout Bill Claiborne's testimony he never mentions the tax burden on the tax paying citizens of Australia. read more

The United States as a whole does not have a fully implemented universal health care system, but about 92% of its citizens have health insurance coverage as of 2017. Furthermore, Massachusetts became the first state to mandate universal health insurance in 2006. read more

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