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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...
I support going public for radiotherapy .You can blend private and public treatment eg private surgery and public radiotherapy.I had private radiotherapy and only 3 weeks - am in top private health and was out of pocket more than $2000 many on here with longer treatment have paid much more.The radiotherapy treatment is the same public/private with bar the initial mapping appointment taking around 15 minutes per session - the lengthiest bit of my radiotherapy treatment was finding a car park.