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You touch on the Australian health, it annoys me when people complain about the long waiting periods for public health, BECAUSE IT'S FREE. And don't give me this shit that your taxes pay for it because if one's taxes did cover their own costs they would be able to afford private health. So put up with your long waiting periods, don't take for granted the fact your lucky enough to live in a country where other people are forced to pay for your well-being.
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I thought it would be prudent to add that the private sector generally tries to charge as much as humanly possible since they're in the business of making as much money as possible, especially for things like health care. The amount charged for private health care is often many, MANY times over what you would pay for through taxes for even a moderately efficient public health care system.
That means that while your taxes could cover the costs of public health care, that same money would get only a fraction of the services/products bought from the private sector.
Yes I know that competition in the private sector is supposed to keep prices down, but that doesn't seem to have much of an effect on some industries especially with the merging of many companies. It's one thing for businesses to charge as much as they can, but it's another thing to have almost unrestrained gouging on critical elements such as health care, power/utilities, etc.