text: Excellent article ! 
  BUT 
  A statement was made that the public system is "free" !
  News flash - it is NOIT, our taxes pay for it, yet our service delivery is abysmal thanks to a politicised self serving bureaucracy that refuses to accept that patients are customers, not merely objects in a queue that increase the work load.
  
  Personally - it is MY health, MY money - and if I chose to spend dollars to look after myself that is a matter of personal choice and liberty - not some politician or the propaganda about the marvels of our "free" health care !
  
  I have had two serious occasions to access our health care system. The first experience was enough to send me to the USA for the second time I needed major treatment. It was very expensive, but I was served as a customer, the procedure was immediate and professional, the most advanced available. The best decision I ever made !
  
  I have no sympathy whatever for our current health care status. If I want to pay - exactly whose problem is that ?