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The Australian system is quiet good and should be looked at.
Most working Australians have private health insurance, that I know anyways. That insurance allows you a private room with a cable tv, choice of doctors, menu for meals and access to faster wait times, more hospitals. etc
For myself and wife cost of that is about $50 a week and really your silly not to have it.
Government supplied medicare is factored in to your taxes, its 1-2% of your earnings depending on income, Same doctors and hospital as above just without all the trimmings. Main thing is if you are poor, you can get the care that you need and its free.
Insurance costs here are skyrocketing as well, don't go thinking that's a USA only thing its world wide, but our costs are still way below yours and that's for many reasons, generic drug options is one, your choice may I add, and that the government negotiates with the large Pharms reducing costs across the board.
You do read that there are Australians that go to the USA for healthcare, that's usually a population based thing, where you have an unusual based aliment that's hardly recognised here, but in the USA because of population, there's and expert somewhere on it. or some new wonder drug that's been approved in the USA but not here yet. The numbers are VERY low, in the hundreds, where as tens of thousands flock to Asia for cheap boob jobs.
The major issue here in Australia is dental is not covered so you can add two scale and cleans to my medical bill @130 a pop
So a base 1% of income gets free care for all, and you top that up with insurance to get the level of care you want.
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