Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Trump praises Australian universal health care" video.

  1. Australia has both private and nationalized healthcare i.e. it's has both right and left wing systems.
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  2. +Scott Everett, Australia's Medicare is a government owned medical insurance.  Australians pay Medicare levy which is currently 2 percent of  taxable income. An exemption applies to low income earners, with different thresholds applying to singles, families, seniors and pensioners, with a phasing-in range. Since 2015–16, the exemptions applied to taxable incomes below $21,335, or $33,738 for seniors and pensioners. The phasing-in range is for taxable incomes between $21,335 and $26,668, or $33,738 and $42,172 for seniors and pensioners.A Medicare levy surcharge (MLS) was introduced in July 1997 by the Howard Coalition government to encourage people on higher incomes to take out and maintain private health insurance. It was part of an effort to reduce demand on the public Medicare system by encouraging people to use the private hospital system. In 2014, the surcharge increased to 1.25% for individuals without private hospital cover on incomes over $105,000, from $97,000, and 1.5% for those on incomes over $140,000, from $130,000; and the threshold amounts are doubled for families.
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  3. +BOX 1    Wrong. It's only taxable gross income and low income earners are exempted.
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  4. +No No   Refer to per capita difference between Australia vs US health care cost.
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  5. +jack flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(Australia)#/media/File:Total_health_expenditure_per_capita,_US_Dollars_PPP.png   US's per capita health expense is far higher than Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and UK. Obama Care's implementation is flawed.
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  6. AUSTRALIA'S healthcare include changes to patent and test results copyright laws.
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  7. +Grahamhg EU's eastern block countries doesn't match UK's welfare system.
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