People in Australia do experience medical bankruptcy. It’s incredibly rare now. But it’s true. But it used to be so much worse before we had a public health system. And health outcomes were worse as well. And it cost more.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-18/bob-hawke-what-did-australia-have-before-medicare/11124180

It’s such a genuinely unhinged document. I was reading it after seeing some specific page numbers online and I wanted to see the original source. it’s just a fucked view of the world.