Public or Private (please help!!)

@maddi  I've had everything done in the public system in Qld. at no cost except parking and prescriptions. In fact, most medications during chemo were free (I'm a pensioner too). Also - going by what I've read on this forum, some people who go private are daunted by the potential cost of additional tests & scans and don't 'automatically' have them. In the public system, I was sausaged through every possible test before and after surgery - top-to-toe bone scan, CT scan(&follow-up tests for spots on my liver & thyroid and I'm now in the system forever to keep checking my thyroid), MRIs, ultrasounds, biopsies, X-rays, electro-cardiogram, blood tests, chemo (and when I got an infection during the first cycle they gave me the special injection - worth well over $1000 - free for the next time), radiation (and the radiation oncologist gave me free StrataSRT gel), etc. etc. Also, I now have an ongoing relationship with the public system, which has huge benefits. Just over four weeks ago, I had my revision surgery to have my problematic reconstruction removed - having successfully self-advocated to change my surgeon - and am very pleased with the results. However, an infection developed in my wound after a couple of weeks and I emailed photos to the BC nurse, who immediately rang me and said yes, it's an infection - go to GP and get ABs and I'm making an appointment for you to see the surgeon on Monday. When I went in, he identified a seroma and drained it immediately to avoid complications if the infection spread to it. He said to take more courses of ABs and he made an appointment for me to come back to him in two weeks. These are the things we've paid our taxes for, for all those decades. 
All the best with your decision-making and your treatment. Hugs.