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Post by fascinating on Oct 26, 2011 20:08:41 GMT 1
I didn't imply that at all, I was just bringing some facts in the discussion, facts which prove your assertion about government in the 1980s to be wrong.
This discussion is supposed to be about the NHS. I maintain that it must provide the best available health care to all who need it. Anybody who argues different to that must state which categories of ill people they want to deny health care to.
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Post by mak2 on Oct 27, 2011 20:09:30 GMT 1
If you want the best available health care and can afford to pay for, don't stay here. Go to the USA.
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Post by fascinating on Oct 28, 2011 11:44:53 GMT 1
And what about the millions who cannot afford to pay? Saying "go to the USA" is not a serious suggestion. If you put the money for the air fare into the NHS, that would pay for the necessary treatment. Other countries like Norway, Germany and France provide excellent health care. The UK must do the same.
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Post by rsmith7 on Oct 28, 2011 11:54:31 GMT 1
And what about the millions who cannot afford to pay? Saying "go to the USA" is not a serious suggestion. If you put the money for the air fare into the NHS, that would pay for the necessary treatment. Other countries like Norway, Germany and France provide excellent health care. The UK must do the same. That'll be why my Norwegian ex-girlfried flew to Australia to get dentistry then? It wasn't the only reason but it was much cheaper in Australia...a tenth of the price if I remember.
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Post by jonjel on Oct 28, 2011 12:11:47 GMT 1
...where she fell in lust with a dentist, never to be seen again!
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Post by rsmith7 on Oct 28, 2011 13:53:26 GMT 1
...where she fell in lust with a dentist, never to be seen again! Hee hee, not quite. I got bored flying across the North Sea all the time.
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Post by mak2 on Oct 28, 2011 14:10:15 GMT 1
"And what about the millions who cannot afford to pay? Saying "go to the USA" is not a serious suggestion."
I did not say that I approve of the American system. Go to the USA is a serious suggestion, if you can pay, as I said. A friend of mine, who was seriously ill, went to the US for treatment that she could not get here. It saved her life.
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Post by fascinating on Oct 28, 2011 17:01:39 GMT 1
The point is, it shouldn't have been necessary for her to do that, becuase the NHS should provide the required treatment, regardless of ability to pay.
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Post by rsmith7 on Oct 28, 2011 17:11:17 GMT 1
The point is, it shouldn't have been necessary for her to do that, becuase the NHS should provide the required treatment, regardless of ability to pay. If the NHS is so great, why am I forced to go private for dentistry due to lack of dentists in Orkney? And why do I have to fork out for prescriptions when I (rarely) go to the doctors?
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