In Australia  Medicare this covered the cost of visits to a doctor or hospitals, Medicare paid the fees at a pre set rate, so a doctor couldn’t over charge a patient for any service provided to them,, we also had concession cards for aged pensioners , unemployed people etc, a concession card allowed the owner, discounts for various things, bus fares etc but more importantly medication costs, wh,  when we presented a doctors  prescription to a chemist,--- or pharmacy  x amount of dollars were paid, can’t remember ho much but  approx $3-50 that changed after a after a few months to the same charge for every item on the script,  this system was a major stumbling block with American politicians who came to oz to set up a  free trade agreement between America and Australia, one of their conditions was concession cards to be scrapped because Americans didn’t have the same rights, sow why should Australians, I imagine this can be verified on the internet, I’ve never looked myself, I as I was living in Australia when it happened, I  live permanently in Canada so it isn’t important now  the concession system worked good so instead of insisting it be stopped why didn’t the free loaders check out a working system like it for the USA, or would that give the average joe the same benefits they  themselves  have, thanks to the average Joes tax payments---politicians and government workers seem to forget they all work for the average Joe, but what do I know, I’m just an average Joe now retired and an old aged pensioner, aged pensioner to be politically correct-lol---------------it all made me think the US government had no interest in improving life for average people living in America but only new how to destroy but not how to build, what else could I think after knowing what happened  during free trade meetings

Move over Snowden I just joined the hate club for telling the truth-----------lol-arthur