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Forum: USA
Jul 28th 2008, 1:37 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

I used the military for the specific reason that whether or not it is true, the American people are told, and they DO believe they have the best military in the world. Now I've been around the US...
Forum: USA
Jul 27th 2008, 2:12 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Yet they are happy to believe they have the best military in the world, which is a fully funded, trained and run GOVERNMENT organisation is it not.

I don't buy it, I think it has a lot more to do...
Forum: USA
Jul 27th 2008, 1:49 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Dont mean this to sound personal, but I think that's a very sad reflection of your opinion of your fellow Americans. The VAST majority of NHS workers take great pride and care in what they do. ...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 11:14 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

One of the problems being though, that the political will to do it 'properly' hasn't existed. Maybe if it did, they would get their act together.

You'll never get rid of the private sector...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 11:07 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

It's got nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with greed though :(

You have to have a way of ensuring that the primary concern is the ultimate wellbeing of the patient, and without...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 10:57 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Having govt run an insurance system does NOT mean you have to have govt run your hospitals. They just dish out the money. All you are doing is removing the profit margins swiped by private...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 10:52 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Some of the NHS is never in debt, other PCTs **** it up royally. Funding has been increased hugely in the last decade and I think right now, it's a case of rationalising what money is spent first on...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 10:47 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

I don't think anyone has said you have to have a bunch of government run hospitals, what is consistently argued is that you remove profit driven private insurance companies as a mechanism for...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 10:43 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Yes, they do, all in all they pay quite a lot more for their medical provision. The French social security system all round, is not free from financial straits by any stretch of the imagination.
...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 10:33 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

This gets worse, not better :blink::ohmy:
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 9:28 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Your situation as stated above is everybodies worse nightmare of the system out there. It's the ultimate test of anyone, in any country but to face the cost of stuff out there on top of the everyday...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 9:15 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

:rofl: Sorry, but thats funny, prescription charges are not intended or used to 'prop up' NHS funding. That said, I accept the general financial position that every penny matters.

Nonetheless,...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 5:31 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Look up strategic healthcare authorities and PCTs for an understanding of the structure and funding of the NHS.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 5:29 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

I'll report them for malpractice, the legal pap smear testing schedule is three years for every women over 25. Anyone sexually active who wishes to request one, can do so from the age of 19.
...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:33 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Where does your daughter live?
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:30 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

We are talking about Germany ....
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:22 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Errm, no, you pay one or the other, not both!
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:22 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

The income level restriction is going to be there because the government will know those below it, can't afford it. I would guess there is some margin of, it's your choice. It is probably...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:17 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Things have changed .. which reminds me, I meant to say, I dont agree with Tracy's Keith either, things have come along way since the years of Thatcher fund starved public services.

For another...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 4:11 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Insurance is enforced so no-one has the option to choose to buy a car and not insure themselves thus upping the price for everyone else.

The fact that less than one quarter of the people who...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 3:46 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

You can also get a season ticket kind of thing. Designed for working people with quite complicated conditions that require various types of Meds and equipment. They are about 40 quid a quarter...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 3:39 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

Everyone in Wales does get free meds, everyone in Scotland will and the vast majority of people that actually need meds in England dont pay either.

The fact that a bunch of workers in England do...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 3:22 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

She does pay, she pays NI and Tax, if shes working. If she cant work due to illness then she should get meds anyway. If she isnt working but could be, well .... that's a different issue.
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 2:55 pm
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

And therein lies the problem, in that any form of 'solution' involves removing the driving factor of healthcare provision being profit. That is going to mean a radical change in structure and...
Forum: USA
Jul 26th 2008, 11:47 am
Replies: 1,214
Views: 47,669
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Land of opportunity...

You would end up with a standard two tier system. In order for affordable healthcare to be made available to the masses you cannot fund valet parking and sat TV in private rooms with marble floors. ...
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