| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: The cost of Hospital Parking | |
| Posted by: | Bernadette Paul | |
| Date/Time: | 25/11/05 09:03:00 |
| National Health Service - What National Health Service? I am old enough to remember when there was a National Health Service and when everything was "free" i.e. dentist, prescriptions, parking! What pray is free now? I lost a crown just before Christmas last this has caused me to attend my "National Health Dentist" on several occasions throughout this year. I ended up losing the whole tooth in any event but not until it had cost me something like £300. I have just spent another £145 on trying to save the tooth next to it and a total of £19.50 (3 separate prescriptions for antibiotics) The NHS are denying certain treatments to "obsese" patients. Also there are certain doctors unwilling to treat smokers (event though the tax revenue from cigarettes is more per annum than the total spent on the NHS). The elderly are also now getting a raw deal as there are too many of them and it's hardly worth treating them because the state would actually prefer them to die and thereby save their pensions. I actually find the whole situation confusing. The nanny state which now governs us want us to stop eating, drinking, smoking, as all these things are bad for our health and may kill us which would suggest they want us to live forever. At the same time 2 of the above raise huge amounts of revenue for the said state, where do they propose getting this revenue if we all do as we are told and stop smoking and drinking. Then we are told we are all living too long (presumably in spite of eating, drinking and smoking) and in spite of the fact that we may have paid NI contributions for 50 years there is no money for a decent pension system. As far as car parking is concerned, it used to be free but that was in the days when fewer people had cars and before some bright spark recognised the potential for raking in even more revenue. |