Overlapping health system just helps to 'jump queue'

By Inga Ting
Updated April 24 2014 - 4:08pm, first published April 21 2014 - 11:07am
No time to lose: Sam Taylor (pictured with her daughter Jade) decided to go through private insurance for after being told she could wait up to three years to have a double mastectomy in the public system. Photo: Ben Rushton
No time to lose: Sam Taylor (pictured with her daughter Jade) decided to go through private insurance for after being told she could wait up to three years to have a double mastectomy in the public system. Photo: Ben Rushton

Sam Taylor's children were just 6 and 14 when she was asked to make a choice no woman ever wants to make.

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