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Public or Private (please help!!)
After diagnosis of High Grade DCIS with Mastectomy required. My husband and I are both on the aged pension, and have struggled to maintain private health insurance. I live in a rural area which has n...
@maddi I went public. I was seen very quickly after diagnosis. I do not think my treatment would have been any different if I had gone private. I had to fork out for scripts medicine and also my breast ultrasounds, biopsies, mammograms as I had these done in a private clinic not the hospital. All up around $2000. My GP started bulk billing me as soon as I was diagnosed. All other tests were free.