What features of the Australian universal health-care system should we incorporate into ours?

Yes, many Canadians go to the to the United States to pay for the hip replacement surgery or knee replacement surgery because the wait times are too long. My wife is lucky she had exclamation when she had a brain aneurysm in the operate on her brain and she was in the hospital for three weeks. That would have probably cost me a quarter million dollars but she's alive and well now and you'd never know she had open brain surgery. Her scar line follows her hairline and she's doing excellent. I can see where Canada is not helping us out with the EU and NATO commitment to a 2% of GDP and Canada senior population exploding right now too. Canada situations probably a C-. The biggest problem I see the United States is workmen's compensation fraud. Medical fraud and litigation it's way too out of control. Attorneys make money doctors make money insurance companies may make money but it's pretty hard when everything's going up way more than the cost of living. Until we have litigation reform and prescription drug price reform, we're never going to solve this problem. I believe Canada has price controls on their medicines but it's against the law for them to sell to Americans hands the Pharmaceuticals are making tons of money on even medicines that have been around for 50 years they jacked up the prices and they're trying to see who can get away with the most. I saw this concerning an author discussing this on the public broadcasting PBS news last week.

LTC (Join to see) - Oh, I'm not defending our system at all, it's broke too. I'm just throwing a dose of reality into the ring because everyone thinks that universal health care is The Shit. Funny thing, though, when you remove the money that capitalism brings -- suddenly, there's no incentive to have the best system, the best doctors, the best logistics that get people seen in a timely fashion.

A lot of work needed to make either private or Government controlled systems work. In both cases the excessive expense breaks the systems. In Government systems often though with excessive wait time people may die before the treatment, guess that saves money for them.