BBC let something slip through today

In article , Ian
scribeth thus
In message , Bill Wright
writes
Steve Terry wrote:
Graham. wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:29:52 -0000, "Steve Terry"
wrote:
Tony Houghton wrote:
In ,
Bill Wright wrote:

The NHS: It should be protected against the Tories
It needs even more protection against Labour.

It's so fecked now, maybe we should adopt the French system
Steve Terry
You meen they stick the tablets up your arse?

They have a very effective service which is means tested. Even the
most well off get 50% paid for by the state, whereas the poorest
pay a nominal amount as little as 1%
I'd now rather have the French system than the burger bar fronted
tin roofed huts the NHS has

If I'd had to pay 50% of the treatment my wife has needed to keep her
alive since 2002 I would have had to sell the house and live in a tin
roofed hut.

Bill

When I've heard people complaining about taxes, I've asked if they would
prefer to have everything privatised, and get separate bills from the
NHS, the Fire Service, the Police, the RAF, Army and Navy etc..

Don't reckon many would pay for the Afghan war...


No-one has ever said yes.

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Tony Sayer

Jim Lesurf wrote:

The basic reason is the same as that behind the hospital consultants being
treated like Barons

I have noticed one thing about consultants. Male consultants of a
certain age, I mean. When they have a pretty little female student
sitting in they don't half show off!

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
Steve Terry wrote:
Graham. wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:29:52 -0000, "Steve Terry"
wrote:
Tony Houghton wrote:
In ,
Bill Wright wrote:

The NHS: It should be protected against the Tories
It needs even more protection against Labour.

It's so fecked now, maybe we should adopt the French system
Steve Terry

You meen they stick the tablets up your arse?

They have a very effective service which is means tested. Even the
most well off get 50% paid for by the state, whereas the poorest
pay a nominal amount as little as 1%

I'd now rather have the French system than the burger bar fronted
tin roofed huts the NHS has

If I'd had to pay 50% of the treatment my wife has needed to keep her
alive since 2002 I would have had to sell the house and live in a tin
roofed hut.
Bill

Under the French system you'd only had to pay 50% if you earned over
maybe £100,000.

My guess is you make maybe £30,000pa, so would pay maybe 10%?
Wangle some heavy expenses to lower your income on paper and it would be
less

And i would expect your wife would get better treatment in a French hospital

Also with proper funding French hospitals have they don't have to turn
themselves into a branch of Burger King.

Steve Terry
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Steve Terry wrote:

Under the French system you'd only had to pay 50% if you earned over
maybe £100,000.

My guess is you make maybe £30,000pa,
Until I had to semi-retire to look after the halt and the lame my income
was very considerably more than that.
But now I am a benefits scrounger! I even went down to the doctors last
week and demanded my indigestion pills on the NHS! I don't feel too
guilty though. After all, twice a year for 40 years I wrote the most
alarmingly enormous cheques made out to the Income Tax people.
For a while I did feel guilty, and it still doesn't seem right somehow,
actually receiving money from the government instead of paying it in. I
have always believed in saving the NHS money whenever possible, so in
the past I did a few daft things. Dragged myself down to the surgery
when I could barely walk to save the doctor coming out, all that sort of
thing. But a couple of years ago I was having a dressing changed because
an operation wound had gone septic, and I said to the nurse, "This seems
a terrible amount of fuss for a little wound. I feel quite embarrassed,"
and she said, "Look love, you've paid in all your life -- you've every
right to have a bit back." And of course she was right. But I still
think we should all be as careful as possible with NHS resources. One
annoyance is that I was given some meds as a precaution but I didn't
need them. The packet remains sealed up, but the surgery won't take them
back. It's against the rules.
I've written to three hospitals in the last five years suggesting ways
they can save money. This has been based on my observations as a patient
and patient's friend. The response has been mixed, but mostly positive.


And i would expect your wife would get better treatment in a French hospital
I doubt it.


Also with proper funding French hospitals have they don't have to turn
themselves into a branch of Burger King.
The shops in hospital are very welcome. People round here chose to go to
RGH because it has a lot of shops. It's really convenient. And the NHS
does really well out of it. I was told the figure for rental per sq foot
and it made my eyes water.

Bill

On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:28:36 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

I have noticed one thing about consultants. Male consultants of a
certain age, I mean. When they have a pretty little female student
sitting in they don't half show off!

I'm sure you must get them in your line of work as well...
What? You don't have any young female aerial rigging apprentices?

In article , Paul Ratcliffe
scribeth thus
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:28:36 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

I have noticed one thing about consultants. Male consultants of a
certain age, I mean. When they have a pretty little female student
sitting in they don't half show off!

I'm sure you must get them in your line of work as well...
What? You don't have any young female aerial rigging apprentices?

Do you know I've never seen a female aerial rigger or TV technician come
to that, they must exist but not here;!..

Saw a very tasty lady railway driver earlier in her new class 379 EMU...

For your amusement here's some vid of a class 379 narrated by train
spotter of the year 365LANCE..

U have been warned;!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC_1XkwQilQ
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Tony Sayer

tony sayer wrote:
In article , Paul Ratcliffe
scribeth thus
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:28:36 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

I have noticed one thing about consultants. Male consultants of a
certain age, I mean. When they have a pretty little female student
sitting in they don't half show off!
I'm sure you must get them in your line of work as well...
What? You don't have any young female aerial rigging apprentices?

Do you know I've never seen a female aerial rigger

I know one. She's good.

Bill

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 16:55:19 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Paul Ratcliffe
scribeth thus
On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:28:36 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

I have noticed one thing about consultants. Male consultants of a
certain age, I mean. When they have a pretty little female student
sitting in they don't half show off!

I'm sure you must get them in your line of work as well...
What? You don't have any young female aerial rigging apprentices?

Do you know I've never seen a female aerial rigger or TV technician come
to that, they must exist but not here;!..

Saw a very tasty lady railway driver earlier in her new class 379 EMU...

For your amusement here's some vid of a class 379 narrated by train
spotter of the year 365LANCE..

U have been warned;!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC_1XkwQilQ


I'm not at all sure how this happened, because I'm not a spotter
myself, but I've seen that clip before.



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Graham.
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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
I'm sure you must get them in your line of work as well...
What? You don't have any young female aerial rigging apprentices?

Do you know I've never seen a female aerial rigger or TV technician come
to that, they must exist but not here;!..

Do you mean TV repair etc technician? Quite a few females are engineers in
broadcasting, and even more on the operational side. Even know a couple of
sex changes. ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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On 29/11/2012 13:48, Tony Houghton wrote:
In ,
Bill Wright wrote:

The NHS: It should be protected against the Tories

It needs even more protection against Labour.



critcher said...........
I think not Tony. You may feel the need to spread rumour and malcontent
for all to see as an aid to tory philosophy,but the NHS was far safer
under Labour than it ever could be with this bunch of nincompoops in
power now.