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insure 4 less grade < 28 policy 20-Apr-2012 At 10:57:16 AM tnd

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No no, he had insurance luckily - NIB - they paid 100%. But he was just shocked when they sent him the bill, he didn't realise it would be anything like that much.

Great health system. They'd carted him to Wonthaggi hospital, where he happened to let them know he was with a group staying on Phillip Island. He needed an operation - it was badly broken - but they couldn't get him into a private hospital in Melbourne that night. Because he had somewhere to go they wouldn't admit him, a nurse gave him a ride back to PI on her way home at the end of her shift, as we had all left the hospital after visiting him.

Next day he had to get a taxi to the hospital in Melbourne where he was to be operated on! (Because his considerate mates were back at the track for another day and too busy to drive him ;-) ).

He's also a climber so all this isn't really off topic.