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LOL: :lol:

Is this is an example of what Shakespeare dubbed - 'Making a virtue of a necessity'?
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Penelope wrote:LOL: :lol:

Is this is an example of what Shakespeare dubbed - 'Making a virtue of a necessity'?
Whatever it is, Penelope, please don't stop posting. I love reading your posts.
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Dear Robin Whatson:

By National Health Care, we are discussing the Government being in charge of our Health Service. Doctors' surgeries and hospital treatment for in-patients and out-patients.

We all pay a certain amount from our wages which goes towards the provision of free health care, (except that it isn't free because everyone contributes from wages). That means that wealthy people pay as well as poorer people, but we can all have the same health care available to us. It is Socialism, which is a very provocative word in the USA, but a very acceptable system in the UK, where I live.

This National Health care means that, for instance, if a child of a poor family has a serious illness, he/she would be automatically treated by the NHS just as readily as a child of a wealthy parent, which seems an admirable arrangement to me. Private Health care is available if people want to pay for that, but our NHS is really great.
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Penelope wrote:Dear Robin Whatson:

By National Health Care, we are discussing the Government being in charge of our Health Service. Doctors' surgeries and hospital treatment for in-patients and out-patients.

We all pay a certain amount from our wages which goes towards the provision of free health care, (except that it isn't free because everyone contributes from wages). That means that wealthy people pay as well as poorer people, but we can all have the same health care available to us. It is Socialism, which is a very provocative word in the USA, but a very acceptable system in the UK, where I live.

This National Health care means that, for instance, if a child of a poor family has a serious illness, he/she would be automatically treated by the NHS just as readily as a child of a wealthy parent, which seems an admirable arrangement to me. Private Health care is available if people want to pay for that, but our NHS is really great.
Hi Penelope,
What are people in Britain making of our healthcare wars? Do they at all understand why an advanced nation would choose not to have any form of national health insurance (well, except Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA system--conveniently overlooked)? Do conservatives in Britain grumble and complain about the insurance available for sick (and well) people?
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DWill, we are having our own NHS wars at present. Our current government promised to safeguard our health service as part of their manifesto before they took power but now that they are in parliament, they are making cuts to funding of our hospitals and closing care homes etc.

It is not just the poor or the labour voters who are complaining, but the doctors themselves are speaking out against the cuts. This is a broadcast by Doctor Robert Winston, a famous writer and broadcaster who, very bravely, spoke up against the Government cuts to our national health service:-

http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analy ... t-winstoni

I have never heard anyone actually complain about paying towards NHS care, although many people also have private health cover with BUPA. So that if they need an operation, they can go private instead of waiting in line for surgery etc. My dentist stopped doing NHS treatment, and only has private patients now. I stayed with him. I do feel as though I am compromising my ideals, but I haven't got that many of my own teeth left anyway..... :lol:
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I just read my last two posts to my husband. He says I've got it wrong. It is not that our Government are making cuts, but that they are putting our health service into private hands. Like the American system, and using American companies.

That is what the Doctors are protesting about..... Along with the rest of us....to deaf ears it seems. :(
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Charlscharli wrote:

For the national care we all have to start from our house and it is our duty that we all have to keep safe and healthy then after the national become healthy. we all have to start health care from our own home then town and then after the national.
This reminds me of the proverb: 'If you would have peace in the world, Let it begin with you'.

I don't think some developing countries grasp what we mean by National Health Care, but we all understand the need for a healthy attitude to living.
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I would just like to add to this steam from many moons ago. In the interim period, between posts, I have had a major operation for cancer of the uterus. That was finally completed with a course of radio therapy in January 2029 just before the pandemic. How fortunate was I?

I am well except for having a heart condition called congestive heart failure ( it means my heart beats irregularly) but it’s okay because I am prescribed loads of meds which regulate my heartbeat and blood thinners, and diabetes treatments et al.

A lot of American people with the same complaints don’t take the meds because they can’t afford them.

I will be 77, this coming October and I feel well, if a bit weak and wobbly, like a jellyfish, at times. I am grateful for our NHS.
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Corrections (sorry!!) as follows: stream not steam.

2019 not 2029! Silly Bugger me.
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Hi Penelope, nice to hear from you, and so glad to hear your National Health Service is keeping you alive and kicking! Cancer is very nasty. It seems such operations these days are delayed by all the selfish stupid anti-vaxxers clogging up the hospitals. You are lucky you got surgery before the pandemic. I am managing to avoid any contact with the health system except vaccination, mainly by focusing on good diet and exercise. I have not even been to the doctor for years. Last we chatted as I recall was back in 2018 when I was thinking of coming to the Chester Mystery Plays, which I wrote about in my commentary on my father's PhD. Do keep well.

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