Thread: Comparison sites drive up private health costs

My youngest son was born on the same day as my mates kid.
Bit of a story to that actually but wont go into it too much.
Me and mate broke down and could not get both partners to hospital blah blah blah. Ended up in the papers over it! Slow news day..... Anyway....

We (my family) are under normal medicare health.
My mates family were private.

We had a room to ourselves where i was able to take in beers, play music and do whatever we wanted.
My mate was stuck in a room with other people. No special treatment at all.

Couple that with the fact premiums seem to keep going up and up......
I would be disappointed if i was paying it!

I understand if your into sports and are likely to need elective surgery it will come in very handy. I also understand most here are born pre 1900 so hip replacements and the like are common. Take those aside i struggle to see how there is worth in paying said premiums.