Curator of Mastodon.art fediblock :newt: (npub1wc2…4sk7) npub108ez5kvh5zgwt3hudetul3cy3y5efukeqf9kfzlklz5dgeufzt9qz3582j (npub108e…582j) cell (npub19ev…s343) Private health is heavily subsidised in this country and 3x the cost of the USA. The subsidy is almost equal to the the cost of funding the public health system. Subsidy goes up, premiums go up. Even if you have private cover there is often a "gap" fee to pay, usually to the anesthetist.
Basically the public fund the private health scheme otherwise it would collapse.