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From: Don Bowey on 14 Nov 2006 11:01 On 11/14/06 5:53 AM, in article ejchp6$8ss_027(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com, "jmfbahciv(a)aol.com" <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > In article <45585202.F8E9C40D(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: (snip) >> BAH - you have now moved from making vague assertions about how you think > things >> might work in theory to saying now that the NHS doesn't work well. > > If it works so well, why is there a backup system called private > practice? (snip) Private Practice is not a "backup." It was in place long before government involvements. Don > /BAH
From: unsettled on 14 Nov 2006 11:07 Don Bowey wrote: > On 11/14/06 5:53 AM, in article > ejchp6$8ss_027(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com, "jmfbahciv(a)aol.com" > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > > >>In article <45585202.F8E9C40D(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > (snip) > > >>>BAH - you have now moved from making vague assertions about how you think >> >>things >> >>>might work in theory to saying now that the NHS doesn't work well. >> >>If it works so well, why is there a backup system called private >>practice? > > > (snip) > > Private Practice is not a "backup." It was in place long before government > involvements. Toemahtoe -- tomato The question restated to a slightly increased level of purism might read, "If NHS works so well, why would private practice have enough business to be able to survive, indeed, perhaps to flourish?"
From: Don Bowey on 14 Nov 2006 11:08 On 11/14/06 6:09 AM, in article 4559CE33.91A27853(a)hotmail.com, "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Ben Newsam <ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote: >>> On Sun, 12 Nov 06 13:47:55 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>> >>>> So you do have to be vetted. You already have limited access. >>>> When, or if, your GP infrastructure goes to pieces, you'll have >>>> no access. >>> >>> <Boggle> That's plain daft. WHy should it fall to pieces? Or rather >>> why would the GP infrastructure fall to pieces leaving the hospital >>> and consultant system in place? They are all part of the same thing. >> >> GPs in the US are rarer than hen's teeth. > > They're not here ! > > >> I don't know of any >> who practice within 25 mile radius here. Everybody is a specialist >> so nobody has a general knowledge of medical afflictions. >> Diagnosis is no longer possible without a lab piece of paper. > > Your GPs are specialists too ? > > Graham > In the U.S., GPs are considered to be Family Practice doctors. Most Primary Care physicians have degrees in Internal Medicine plus whatever else they took time to study. Don
From: krw on 14 Nov 2006 11:58 In article <ejce10$8ss_012(a)s858.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > In article <MPG.1fc192c87abdff5b989afb(a)news.individual.net>, > krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: > >In article <ej7ffd$8qk_042(a)s851.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... > <snip> > > >> After my tuition and dorm fee were paid, I lived on $2/month when > >> I went to college; the $2 included clothes washing and Tampax. > > > >That's harsh! I didn't need Tampax (but my wife did). Beer was > >expensive though! ;-) > > I didn't drink then. I didn't think it was harsh. That's how > we lived at home. > > > >BTW, we were both making a quarter above the minimum wage of > >$2/hr.> > > You were rich. When I started saving for college, I was making > $.65/hour. I thought I was very rich because before that > I was making $.07/lb picking blueberries. Or a dollar a day > babysitting brats. I dropped the babysitting; it wasn't worth > the money. That was when I was a senior in college, working for the UNiversity as an electronics technician. A week later I was making the grand sum of $12,300/yr as an engineer. ;-) I started college at $.10/hr under minimum wage ($1.50/hr) at the same job (technician). -- Keith
From: krw on 14 Nov 2006 11:58
In article <aa7jl21smbdfqca8rjki6o4mc0c0h1dlek(a)4ax.com>, ben.newsam(a)ukonline.co.uk says... > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:16:44 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> > wrote: > > >Ben Newsam wrote: > >> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:50:42 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>>It might be a part time second > >>>job, or a kid might do it. > >> > >> Send them down the mines or up the chimneys, best place for them. > > > >That's *your* answer, of course. > > There's nothing socialist about me, remember. > The very idea of a "living wage" is socialist. -- Keith |