Reply to: Going private for maturnity care

[BrilloPad]

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!

and fewer doctors - particularly overnight and if a good golfing day

[gingerjedi]

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!

[Stan]

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.

[TheOmegaMan]

Who 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

Joking ? It is the next logical step. We need better value for money.

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.

[Lewis]

For 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

Not in these cases, both said they wanted it from the start. Simply under staffed units.

[BrilloPad]

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.

sprogging - or dying while the doctors are on the golf course and no cover.

[DodgyAgent]

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.

Have you met our now friend Causeless Delhi ? you two should get on like a house on fire.

[Bagpuss]

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.

Who 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

[DodgyAgent]

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.

[TheOmegaMan]

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.

[gingerjedi]

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.

Not at all, I have a very well to do friend who pays for whatever the top BUPA service is, since being diagnosed with cancer he has had all his treatment in NHS hospitals because they are the one's with the equipment and expertise, its often the same doctors who treat you anyway so what’s the point in paying extra just for a nice bed? BUPA is probably great if you need a hip replacement or a knee operation but when it come to something serious you'd get the same level of care either way.

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!

[BrilloPad]

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.

private health care is best for seeing a consultant - gets you faster up the queue. And its good for a private operation in NHS hospital.

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.

[TheOmegaMan]

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.

[TheRightStuff]

Did they induce a stiffy to get the pipe in?

no idea I was asleep.

[Troll]

I 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.

Did they induce a stiffy to get the pipe in?