Quote Originally Posted by paulyt View Post
Having universal or "socialised" health care doesn't mean your whole precious capitalist system has to be destroyed. A country is supposed to take care of it's citizens. You could use the Australian and tax people who earn over a certain amount (say $100,000 a year or whatever a little bit (I think it's 2.5% here) if they don't have private health care. Those who can afford and want private health care have it and those who can't afford it still get treatment and medication.

tl;dr: You can still keep all the other aspects of capitalism even if you have Universal health care.
If you had read anything that I'd said at all you'd know that my argument has nothing to do with capitalism.
Quote Originally Posted by no_brains_no_worries View Post
WTF is a pinko? And how can you, someone who's come from a poor upbringing, agree with only private schools? Where does that leave those below the poverty line? Perhaps people wouldn't be so down on public schooling if it got the funding it deserved.
If I recall correctly, he said something about the government issuing credits to people for the privatized education, which is fine by me. If he didn't mention that, then scratch my support of it.