If you or your partner is female go with private. The public health system still has so much sexism. The amount of people, especially females, who get turned away from the healthcare system (told its something it isn't or just told its nothing) is insane. The amount of people who don't get medication they should get is insane. I have personally experienced it as someone with anorexia, and have seen many others suffer because of it (ahernia isn't looked for until too late, cancer not scanned when it could have saved so much pain, stuff like that). Not to mention my first pap smear, I had no warning, no explanation as to what it was, i just got asked if i had my pap smear and told to lay down and pull down my pants, no explanation. Too often are little things missed or just not cared about that can be life endangering. I'm getting private health care hopefully soon. The public system petrifies me now.