Forget Australia. In the USA there will be atheists that will file lawsuits about religious names for hospitals if health care is 100% run by the government with taxpayer money.
You know that will happen.
No, I don’t. I can see that it might happen, but I don’t see any reason to suppose that it must.
Also - and this is important - government run health care doesn’t have to mean health care is “100% run by the government with taxpayer money.” That’s an extreme example. A middle ground is absolutely possible - Australia has had universal healthcare for over thirty years now, and there’s a large private system (funded by the users, often via insurance) running parallel to the public system. It works well - everybody has access to the public system, free of charge (or rather paid for by taxes - but no charges at the time and all citizens are covered) but can also choose to use the private system, which is partially subsidised by the same funding system as the public systems, and there are tax breaks for those who voluntarily choose to have private health insurances. And it does work very well. American conservatives seem to have been convinced somewhere along the line that there’s only one possible model for public healthcare - one of 100% government funding and 100% government controlled. That’s not the only model - anymore than having public education means shutting down all private schools. I don’t know if public healthcare can be made to work in the US - I do know that conservatives seem to be allowing socialists to set the agenda almost completely and it won’t work if that happens.