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Drug addicts can receive methadone free, and don't have to wait in queues in public hospitals, get free needles and a safe place to shoot up after becoming drug addicts (THEIR CHOICE).  AND the other thing that makes me really mad is when newcomers to this country receive a health care card and support like housing, mobile phones, benefits from Centrelink immediately and yet we tax paying AUSTRALIANS DO NOT, when we are unable to work and genuinely cannot afford to have cancer.  it is certainly out of balance and I know I felt like I was being punished for being over 50 and having Breast cancer.  No more free mammograms, $500 Gap payments every six months for now mandatory MRI's, Huge gap payments for testing and surgery in the private sector ($7000 OPE up to day after surgery) on top of paying out $420 per month for Medibank Private for 52 years and 30 cents in the dollar earned in taxation.   Then the cost of the radiation -($000's) and supplements, and physio and compression wear, and so on and so on.    We will PAY for having breast cancer every day for the rest of our lives and in fact the government have withdrawn lots of items BECAUSE of our breast cancer diagnosis.  eg MRI - Body scans, bone scans, needle biopsies, etc etc...  
Rant over.   But certainly not forgotten. :(