Or maybe the better question would be, what doesn't it cover? I am new to Australia and I will be under Medicare in a couple months. BTW, the assume when everyone speaks of public vs. private they mean Medicare as public and something like Medibank Private for private. Right now I have Medibank Private's overseas student health insurance. If I'm wrong on that, please enlighten me. I find the internet to be no help at all.

Does Medicare cover midwifes and birth centres or just classic births in a hospital? When a hospital/birth centre says no charges to public patients does that mean Medicare covers everything or just part of all their services or what? Also when a hospital/birth centre says no private patients or no public patients does that exclude those who pay out of pocket? Can you tell I'm really confused? Thanks.