[naturalman1975]

As I said earlier in the thread - Australia’s Medicare system does seem to work. The only socialist idea I’ve seen that does (OK - to be fair, the university payment system works too, but that’s a compromise between the socialist system that didn’t work that was reached with the conservatives, not a purely socialist system).

If you need to see a doctor because you’re problem is urgent, you’ll be treated quickly and you won’t have to pay. If you have a problem that can wait, you’ll have to wait unless you are willing to pay. A lot of Australians use both the public and private systems depending on what they are dealing with.

[Aussiebabe]

If you count the superannuneration pension system as socialistic, that works pretty well too. But since we get to put the accounts in our own names and invest in what we want, it is not anywhere as socialistic as the USA’s Social Security system, which truely is a scandal.