Ian, Lee,
All good points.
People have private health for differing specific reasons.
Like all insurance, it's a necessary evil. We all hate paying premiums.
Our family has it for reasons more to do with our kids.
Mum and Dad have it for their reasons.
We're lucky we have such a good public health system in
this country to fall back on...we could be far worse off.
Lee, you hear horror stories about the public system just as much
as the ones denigrating private.
I've heard, for example, doctors being rostered on for 24 hour shifts.
I'm flat out thinking straight after 10-12 hrs....these people make
decisions where lives are at stake.
Lawyers send their mistakes to prison, journalists print their mistakes
for all the world to see, doctors bury their mistakes.
On reading glasses, it's probably been covered already but,
I've just been through the process of my first prescription
measurement/fitting.....all paid for under private.
I, too, spent many years using the $2 glasses to get by doing
fine soldering, fibre optic work.....but always knew there was
not an exact compensation....each eye had a slightly different
deficiency.
When my new glasses came in, it was a breath of fresh air.
The compensation was exact.....and putting on my 'favourite'
pair of cheapies just showed how much strain my eyes were under
trying to compensate for the 'not quite right' factor.
Optometrists are tradespeople just like me...you probably have good
and bad ones in the mix.....I'm just glad I got a good one.
Steve
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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
Actually you did , bet ya never ever got more back from HBF in rebates than you paid them to have coverage. .... all they did was give you back a little bit of your money  , why don't as many people see this ....? |