@theausinstitute: "I mean call me crazy, but I think the objective of a health system is to keep people healthy, right? "We keep people alive, but we don't keep them healthy." Dr Luke Slawomirski says Australia has built an illness system, not a health system. Hear more on the latest episode of Follow the Money - find it wherever you get your podcasts. #auspol

Di :

Our healthcare system is only good in an emergency. Otherwise you have about 2.5 minutes with a doctor and good luck finding specialists in regional towns.

Dr Peter Dingle PhD :

Do you have links for the 2024 study. I talk about this aging paradox all the time.

Julez Downunder :

wow that is disappointing and not surprising the way successive governments continue to cut funding for our healthcare services.

astropeachyrambo :

Exactly when you go to the doctor and you have a issue instead of the doctor working out why have an issue? The doctor just give you a pill and you have to take it for the rest of your life. He doesn’t tell you that he can fix the problem he just gives you a pill. That’s what doctor do in Australia.

karmakameleon2026 :

I've spent 7 years trying to get treated for endometriosis in SA. Crickets. I've given up. They don't care about chronic illness. I've had 25 surgeries for this illness and I still have to prove I have it everytime.

ima_badman2 :

Our health system is a joke.

Bushman :

If we stayed healthy, big pharma wouldn’t make billions

peregrine65 :

I'm trying to be nice :

I don't think you can blame the health system, that's lifestyle choices

Fun Down under :

12 day wait to see a doctor is ridiculous many would die long before seeing them .. and how do you know 12 days in advance you will be sick 🤢?

Mazzy :

US politician Katie Porter pointed to the Australian model to argue that universal healthcare systems function far more equitably and cost-effectively when they operate strictly as a public single-payer utility, rather than allowing private health insurance companies to extract profits, complicate paperwork, and create a two-tiered system.

dvblom :

As Australians we all need to work hard individually and together at disease prevention. This means living the best life possible with diet, exercise and mental harmony. Our current health system ignores this to simply treat you for some possibly preventable disease once it’s taken hold. We really have a sickness industry rather than a health industry.

Smith :

Our GPs are garbage. Hospitals are OK - great if you're going to die imminently. It's not the government's job to micromanage my life to keep me alive as long as possible.

bridue :

Have you seen the wait times???? B

mantz hamish :

Our medical program is based on the U.S system . Those cheeky mofo’s have devised systems to keep the industry in motion , even buying up entire universities to bake their own data ..

stevenstrachan929 :

Keeping Drug Companies Healthy, walk through any public place, half the people over 50 are are already half dead, its sad.