Private health: has it a future?

A puzzling editorial decision

“…My puzzlement started with the very title: Private Health: has it a future? 1 The real question is whether public health has any future. Not, it would seem, if people like R. Schneider have any say!…”

“…The first paragraph of R. Schneider’s piece, ‘For more than 20 years, Australia’s health insurance system has been under siege, a siege brought about largely by the politics of fear, greed and misguided ideology’, 1 is astounding. Isn’t the very opposite the case?…”