shereads
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These drug-running grandmas must be stopped!
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*sighs*
You guys really need an NHS...
You guys really need an NHS...
National Health Service.
In the way of humans this is a euphemism for National Illness Service.
The nearest you have is Medicare.
The NHS is "free at the point of delivery" except for medicines (£6 each), spectacles (from £35), dentistry (no idea, can't find one in the scheme) and a few other things. Visiting the doctor (or a house call), an operation, and hospital time actually do not incur a direct charge. Every employee pays 10% of their wages above a certain limit into the scheme for this and unemployment pay and an old age pension.
That's the theory, though the money isn't ring-fenced, it just goes into the national coffers and the costs are paid from the same general fund.
In the way of humans this is a euphemism for National Illness Service.
The nearest you have is Medicare.
The NHS is "free at the point of delivery" except for medicines (£6 each), spectacles (from £35), dentistry (no idea, can't find one in the scheme) and a few other things. Visiting the doctor (or a house call), an operation, and hospital time actually do not incur a direct charge. Every employee pays 10% of their wages above a certain limit into the scheme for this and unemployment pay and an old age pension.
That's the theory, though the money isn't ring-fenced, it just goes into the national coffers and the costs are paid from the same general fund.
Svenskaflicka
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I have an account at the apothecaries, so that I don't have to pay medicines in cash, but they send me a bill - excellent, since I don't carry around much money on a regular daily basis.
Yesterday, I went there to buy contraceptives for my cat. Not that she really needs them - she's a house cat and doesn't go out - but because when she gets horny, she meows constantly 24/7, and only the pills make her normal again (that is, meowing only when she wants food, patting, her sandbox changed, clean drinking water, her toy that's up on the shelf where she left it yesterday, playing with imaginary monsters, or chasing a fly up in the window...)
The beauty part is that I couldn't buy the damned pills, because I didn't have enough cash on me, and the apothecary only send you bills for human medicine - anything written out by a vet must be payed in cash!
'scuse me, the cat wants something...
Yesterday, I went there to buy contraceptives for my cat. Not that she really needs them - she's a house cat and doesn't go out - but because when she gets horny, she meows constantly 24/7, and only the pills make her normal again (that is, meowing only when she wants food, patting, her sandbox changed, clean drinking water, her toy that's up on the shelf where she left it yesterday, playing with imaginary monsters, or chasing a fly up in the window...)
The beauty part is that I couldn't buy the damned pills, because I didn't have enough cash on me, and the apothecary only send you bills for human medicine - anything written out by a vet must be payed in cash!
'scuse me, the cat wants something...
shereads
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Svenskaflicka said:I have an account at the apothecaries, so that I don't have to pay medicines in cash, but they send me a bill - excellent, since I don't carry around much money on a regular daily basis.
Yesterday, I went there to buy contraceptives for my cat. Not that she really needs them - she's a house cat and doesn't go out - but because when she gets horny, she meows constantly 24/7, and only the pills make her normal again (that is, meowing only when she wants food, patting, her sandbox changed, clean drinking water, her toy that's up on the shelf where she left it yesterday, playing with imaginary monsters, or chasing a fly up in the window...)
The beauty part is that I couldn't buy the damned pills, because I didn't have enough cash on me, and the apothecary only send you bills for human medicine - anything written out by a vet must be payed in cash!
'scuse me, the cat wants something...
I have health insurance for my dog.
Not proud of it, I guess, since 40 million Americans have nada. The saddest part about this video is that Bush pretended to solve the problem of high-cost prescription drugs for the elderly, with a Medicare bill that's little more than a gift to the pharmaceutical companies (Its real purpose was to stem the tide of people buying cheaper drugs from Canada, by making it harder for states to allow foreign drugs as part of their state programs.)
