alextoo

Hi

Please can anyone tell us is birth control (the pill) free in oz as in the u.k? If you pay is it covered by medicare?

Thanks Julie

Teliko19

It isn't free here, it ranges in price from about $18.00 to $40.00 for a few months. I get it cheaper being from UK. I don't think it is free with medicare but I don't know, I don't have medicare.

mashiraz

I remember soneone saying you have to pay for it. Get as much supply as you can before you go..

Mash...

paulf

What about Diabetics medication? in the UK diabetics are exempt
from paying, do you have to pay in OZ?

gbarker

Anybody know whether Thyroxine is free with Medicare, like it is in the UK??

darkstone1975

in reply to that Thyroxine mediacation.. you have to pay I'm afraid..
My fiance is aussie and she has to pay about $5 for it and she is on speacial mediace benifits..

from the looks of things you don't get half the stuff you would normally expect to get free In Oz as you would in the Uk

wouldn't want to be dieing of anything would you... you would have to pay to the grave..

karawara88

Medications in Australia are subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Insulin requires a prescription from a doctor. You will need to pay a fee of around AUS$40 for the visit, a proportion of which can be claimed back from Medicare.

My advice is stock up before you go, I have about two years supply of insulin, enough needles until I die, enough hypostop to last a few years.

Testing strips are quite expensive in Oz so try and get as many as you possibly can.

Its an expensive place to live as a diabetic, when you weigh up in UK I get free eye checks see the doc a couple of times a year for free feet checks etc. etc.

Actually think if I got a "serious illness" I would not want to live in Oz. !!

As it happens I am having second thoughts now with less than 8 weeks to go.

Good link for diabetes medical care, organ donor etc on here. http://www.movingdownunder.co.uk/files/medical.php

Loopy

Why are you having second thoughts, because of health issues or is anything else troubling you?

Loopy

karawara88

Health issues not really a problem, the lack of work, currency rate, etc. etc.

All the usaul stuff really.

Loopy

What work do you both do? There seem to be quite a few jobs around if you look in the right place. I got a job within a fortnight without really looking but maybe that's unusual, it seems to be who you know sometimes not what you know, that's why sites like this are so good. Tell us what you do and we'll keep our eyes peeled and tell you what's around if poss.

Exchange rate, not much you can do about it. We lost out but I decided as long as we got 2.5 plus I'd be happy.

Loopy

paulf

What do you work at Loopy?

Loopy

I'd turn my hand to anything (within reason!) if need be to start with to get my foot in the door.

Working in childcare out of school care at the moment, was in school in the UK.

Loopy

karawara88

I am in (was) IT and its nearly impossible for work here Perth is alot worse, mainly age against me on that one.

My wife is a social worker specialising in child care. So she will probably OK.

Also I am a qualified Baker & Confectioner so its always a possibility to go back to, not sure I want to work 40 hours a week for peanuts though.

footie chick

Nightmare, just read the `Brisbane Courier` not many jobs partner found a few but not many for me but then i will probably apply for Uni.

Jobs i think will be the main reason for not going i think..


Footie chick

paulf

Work will be hard to find, I am a plumber/gasfitter But I also have city & guilds in air-conditioning and refridgeration which is wher I think I will get work.