- Location
- Aberdeenshire
My wife had a life threatening d.v.t which was found by A+E staff, her tremor was spotted by an A+E doctor who suggested she approach her doctor and thus her Parkinson's disease was found so @Kidds I'll have to agree to disagree in opinions regarding the NHS.
Too many sponging off a small tax paying base. Health service does well with the resources they have. Ye it’s out dated but if you haven’t the means to pay private it’s a lot better than the alternative. Shame Enoch powels speech wasn’t look at in a long term prospective. Sure it would have had less pressure on the welfare system had it been. And before the race police start sharpening their spears I have friends here from many religions,countries and colours Difference is they work for what they have.Yes i cant see the NHS in its currant form lasting much longer, nor the whole welfare state ? When all this was set up just after ww2 1945 the world, society in general was a whole different place? One thing, the welfare state was ment to be a safety net to help people in hard times, not a way of life to life on? Same as the Asylum rules and the granting of? that was set up after WW2, never was at the time imagined to be used in the way it is used today ? All these rules, laws, need urgently overhauled, abolished etc and brought up to date for todays world not yesterdays?
What treatment would be in the luxury category?You could give the NHS all the money and it still would need more. It's a political black hole, and needs reimagining as a provider of basic care, and let insurance cover the luxuries.
I owe my life to the NHS at 27 months i had a terrible accident and for the next 6 years spent over half my life in hospital, so should be here defending it to my last breathWhat treatment would be in the luxury category?
A new hip if you can still walk?
Lowering cholesterol because your father had a heart attack?
Straightening your nose because it feels blocked?
Giving you £10,000 of chemotherapy to give you 6 extra months?
The biggest threat to public safety would be charging 25 quid for a doctor visit or 50 quid for A+E as there are still regrettably folk for whom that would be too much. Yes there are dole dossers but there are also folk who fall through the benefits system. I've been there in my youth. Often it is decent folk who aren't trained in manipulating the system or strong enough/obnoxious enough enough to make their case heard.
On a holiday across the pond I was out shooting with my mate when his son phoned and said he felt ill. It chills me to this day when I think of his father's reply. He said 'are you sure you're really sick, we don't have 200 bucks spare just now'. I'd dread to think of anyone having to say anything similar to that to their child in this country.
I think the idea is they keep you alive long enough to be presented with a bill isn't it?Its' the law, if you present at A&E you will see a doctor and receive treatment, cannot be turned away, money or no money.
I think the idea is they keep you alive long enough to be presented with a bill isn't it?
If everyone gets treated why is health insurance so important there?
A week after my last season in the US I had an infected appendix and had to have it removed. I was in NZ at the time and had it done for free as they have a reciprocal agreement with the UK (wasn't a kiwi back then) When I woke up after surgery I realised that I'd just done 6 months in the US with no health insurance, completely forgot to get it.
I wonder how big a bill I'd have had if I had needed my appendix out 2 weeks earlier?
From my one quick trip to the hospital to get my hand stitched up (had insurance that year) I agree about the service, it was excellent, it was pretty empty the day I went. Not something I've seen from a NHS hospital.People who are on medicaid (low income) never get a bill, if retired and on medicare you may get a small co-pay bill.
You may have been billed for your deal, chances are if you call them up after being billed with a bit of negotiation you could get 50% knocked off, one thing, you would receive good service.