Health care
Jul 28th 2007, 3:48 pm
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Health care
Hello
Whats the deal with health care in Oz? Is it expensive? What happens if you get some kind of cancer if you are not on really high wages? Is medical insurance very expensive out there?
Thanks
Whats the deal with health care in Oz? Is it expensive? What happens if you get some kind of cancer if you are not on really high wages? Is medical insurance very expensive out there?
Thanks
Jul 28th 2007, 3:59 pm
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Health care
You saved me a post. I need to get medical insurance & was going to ask how much it cost.
& what about prescriptions - are they subsidized like in England?
& what about prescriptions - are they subsidized like in England?
Jul 29th 2007, 1:44 am
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Re: Health care
Health care is done by medicare here you get :
Free treatment at a public hospital
Free or subsidised treatment by doctors and specialists.
To qualify you must be a permantent residence or australia citizen although if you get a working holiday visa you can get a recipricol card which just means the bills go back to the uk goverment.
If you go to a hospital and are checked in as a public patient you wont have the choice of which doctors treat you but you wont be charged.
If your a private patient medicare will pay 75 percent of the bill and the rest is picked up by the private company you are with, if they cover it all, you will get a choice of doctors.
All this info is straight from the medicare leaflet i have in front of me, as I just joined a couple of days ago myself
Free treatment at a public hospital
Free or subsidised treatment by doctors and specialists.
To qualify you must be a permantent residence or australia citizen although if you get a working holiday visa you can get a recipricol card which just means the bills go back to the uk goverment.
If you go to a hospital and are checked in as a public patient you wont have the choice of which doctors treat you but you wont be charged.
If your a private patient medicare will pay 75 percent of the bill and the rest is picked up by the private company you are with, if they cover it all, you will get a choice of doctors.
All this info is straight from the medicare leaflet i have in front of me, as I just joined a couple of days ago myself
Jul 29th 2007, 2:26 am
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Re: Health care
Hello you can also use the UK agreement and get a medicare card if you are on a sponsored 457 visa.
We are here on 457 and went in and got medicare card for whole family. Also told us we were entitled to PBS ( cheaper prescription meds scheme). I asked them as have kids with medical conditions and she went and double checked for me to confirm.
GEMS
We are here on 457 and went in and got medicare card for whole family. Also told us we were entitled to PBS ( cheaper prescription meds scheme). I asked them as have kids with medical conditions and she went and double checked for me to confirm.
GEMS
Aug 8th 2007, 8:07 pm
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Re: Health care
Hello you can also use the UK agreement and get a medicare card if you are on a sponsored 457 visa.
We are here on 457 and went in and got medicare card for whole family. Also told us we were entitled to PBS ( cheaper prescription meds scheme). I asked them as have kids with medical conditions and she went and double checked for me to confirm.
GEMS
We are here on 457 and went in and got medicare card for whole family. Also told us we were entitled to PBS ( cheaper prescription meds scheme). I asked them as have kids with medical conditions and she went and double checked for me to confirm.
GEMS
To save me search hundreds of threads - can you confirm what the UK agreement is and how you do this. I have heard very limited info on this, so any help would be great.
Thanks
John
