Discuss NHS: towering monument to vision - and envy Stateside in Current Affairs, News and Analysis on The Army Rumour Service; In case we ever wonder what life might be like in a Tory-Truman-Show of Private Health Care:
"Contrast [Doc Martin's Cornish GP surgery] with the bedlam of an American doctor’s office... ‘Tell him it’s not ...
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NHS: towering monument to vision - and envy Stateside
In case we ever wonder what life might be like in a Tory-Truman-Show of Private Health Care:
"Contrast [Doc Martin's Cornish GP surgery] with the bedlam of an American doctor’s office... ‘Tell him it’s not a co-pay because I just had one operation, not two. The first time he didn’t get it all and had to go back in, so that counts as one!’ The other patients in the waiting room can hear all this. While they are reluctantly visualising it, the debate shifts to whether the problem qualifies as a ‘pre-existing condition’. Is there a haemorrhoid that doesn’t? Nothing can pre-exist like a haemorrhoid, so you’d better not have one in the good old USA, because your private health insurance might not pay for it."
To your health | The Spectator"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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Of course the system as espoused by our liberal left is a picture of perfect harmony.
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Yep I have to agree that the NHS is really envied by almost all other countries - so much so that it has been copied by err, err,, err .. no other countries.
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I'd rather hae the NHS and the option to go private than the american poo system.
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Carry on Matron was a perfect picture.
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Carry on Matron Final - YouTube"As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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When the GP practices start commissioning you may be going private anyway if it's cheaper. Originally Posted by chocolate_frog Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara
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- 27-04-2012, 20:40 #7
If they stop squabbling long enough to actually commission anything!
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No money has arrived yet. Originally Posted by bigbird67 Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara
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I got as far as "towering monument" and puked all over my keyboard. If it were that good, it wouldn't need the emotive language.
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Norovirus. Originally Posted by DeltaDog "As we moved slowly through the outskirts of the town we passed row after row of little grey slum houses running at right angles to the embankment. At the back of one of the houses a young woman was kneeling on the stones, poking a stick up the leaden waste-pipe which ran from the sink inside and which I suppose was blocked. I had time to see everything about her - her sacking apron, her clumsy clogs, her arms reddened by the cold. She looked up as the train passed, and I was almost near enough to catch her eye." Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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