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There's no such thing as private healthcare when it comes to serious conditions you just get a nicer room and a choice of menu!
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Is all private healthcare that bad or just BUPA? I assumed private healthcare include maternity care and you would have better access to doctors not worse.
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Originally posted by BagpussWho trains the private people?
Moreover most consultants work both NHS and private, where private is just a way to jump to queue not a guarantee of a better service.
I hope and suspect you are joking
Most state industries are now privatised. Education is rapidly becoming privatised at least in the tertiary sector. Roads are to be privatised. The railways are privatised. Fuel is privatised. Water is privatised.
So why not health ? Why are people so obsessed with cross-subsidy in health provision ? You pay for your dentist, you pay for your heart bypass. No pay, no new teeth.
Paying the chavs to have children just encourages them to have more children, which means more social security and higher stealth taxes.
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Originally posted by TrollFor some reason women (esp first timers) have a trendy notion that they should go through childbirth with minimal pain relief - they then get to the stage where they need it - usually at a ungodly hour- so the registrar has to be roused / bought in on call to put the shunt into the spine of a woman in agony, all of which causes delays.
So my advice is to get the shunt in as soon as possible upon arrival and then choose to use it or not as the situation dictates.
HTH
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Originally posted by DodgyAgentThere is no question that if you can afford it go to the Portland, you can watch telly and sip a G & T whilst the missus is sprogging.
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Originally posted by TheOmegaManAnd anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.
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Originally posted by TheOmegaManHold on - surely all contractors agree that private health care is best - how would a socialist health care system be at all efficient or competent ?
And anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.
Moreover most consultants work both NHS and private, where private is just a way to jump to queue not a guarantee of a better service.
I hope and suspect you are joking
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There is no question that if you can afford it go to the Portland, you can watch telly and sip a G & T whilst the missus is sprogging.
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I am not saying they should not be allowed to reproduce - only that they should pay for it. We have plenty of poorly paid migrant workers to do the menial jobs anyway.
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Originally posted by TheOmegaManHold on - surely all contractors agree that private health care is best - how would a socialist health care system be at all efficient or competent ?
And anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.
As for your comment about poor people, who would collect your rubbish or serve your latte if they were not allowed to reproduce? Everyone has a place in society and that's what keeps you smug, we'd all be poorer without them!
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Originally posted by TheOmegaManHold on - surely all contractors agree that private health care is best - how would a socialist health care system be at all efficient or competent ?
And anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.
Remember in private they never touch anything major. And if minor surgery remember that there could well be no backup. Plenty of people have fallen ill with only nurses to look at them. By the time Doctor arrives its all gone horribly wrong.
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Hold on - surely all contractors agree that private health care is best - how would a socialist health care system be at all efficient or competent ?
And anyway, why should my taxes help the chavs to spawn ? If we didn't subsidise the poor to reproduce we would have fewer poor people.
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Originally posted by TrollDid they induce a stiffy to get the pipe in?
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Originally posted by TheRightStuffI didn't know that until after the operation. The did ultrasound at sutton hospital but not at Mayday. This was 2000 Boxing day at 2am.
It also depends how big it is. Mine was as big as a thumb nail.
All my life I had been drinking coke and fanta so no surprise. Now it's water or diluted water. Don't want to go through that again.
2 months with a pipe up your wand makes you change your lifestyle.
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