Is Private Health Worth it? - Decision is made
 

For many years I've paid into private health not knowing if the Hospital Cover element was worth it. Especially after my daughter had to go in as an emergency patient and got EXACTLY the same treatment as she would have done as a public patient and it cost me over a grand in excess/gap fees.

I even spent 5 nights in Joondalup as a public patient last year - amazing treatment in a great hospital, cost to me? nothing.

So when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of months ago we decided to have the operation in the public system. Big mistake.

Don't get me wrong, her treatment and the medical professionals were/are excellent but what I hadn't bargained for was ho Royal Perth Hospital is some sort of magnet for the worst scum of WA.

When my wife could have been in a nice private room at The Mount Hospital instead she had to endure a succession of bogans, aborigines, prisoners and gangsters.

She was only in for 2 nights but she had to sit in the waiting room on 2 occasions next to women handcuffed to prison officers, people constantly fing and blinding to the staff, threatening to sue them. Being kept up all night in the ward by loud, swearing bogans who refused to leave after visiting hours and to cap it all 2 gangsters came in and threatened a guy with a knife. That was for only 2 nights!

When my friend's husband lay dying in Royal Perth she was too terrified to leave the hospital at night without security as when you leave you have to run a gauntlet of aborigines.

Anyway, the good thing about this is I have totally made up my mind about private health and any future surgeries my family has to have will be done privately.

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Thanks. That helps to reassure me I made the right decision in buying it.

I've just got hospital cover though, not extras.

BB

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Sorry to hear about your wife's illness. Wishing her and you all the best

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They let Aboriginals into public hospitals, whatever next ?

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So sorry your wife had to go through that as well as her illness.Wishing her a speedy recovery.:fingerscrossed:

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Chris, that's unecessary given the situation.

Renth..All the best to your wife for a quick recovery.

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Why ? Yes I hope his wife recoveries quickly as well but the original comment was unnecessary also.

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No it wasn't. I'm setting the scene for potential users of the public health system.

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Sounds like the Mayday hospital in Croydon, although swap Aborigines for Yardies!

Hope your wife makes a speedy recovery. I also had a spell in RPH and the treatment I received was first-rate.

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By warning them about the possibility of encountering Aboriginals :confused:

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At the end of the day whether you go private or public is a lottery, you get good and bad everywhere.

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And it may come as a shock to some people but some Aborigines do uyse the private health system. I have a very good friend whose family always go private, they don't consider themselves to be any different from any other Australians.

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Is that even allowed ? (Where is the heavy sarcasm emoticon ?)

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We need one don't we, I was trying to find one to stick on my post :D
And yes (shock horror :p) it IS allowed ;)

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Yes, and bogans and gangsters and prison inmates.