Banana republic
Independent socialist utopian republic.
Aren't we so better off than those people in Wales, NI and Scotland. Still occupied by the crown. Still having the NHS with its free GP visits, free or cheap prescriptions and a doctor who actually looks at you instead of getting a nurse to do it and justifying his €60 by sticking his head round the door and asking "everything OK here?".
Brave men fought and died to enable us to pay for those doctors' Mercedes.
She is under pressure from other local GP's to increase her fees. .
Price deflation is the only thing that can drive competitiveness
That's the crux of it but they know that by limiting supply they can earn supernormal profits (remember your leaving cert economics?).If there were more GP places offered to qualified doctors prices would come down
Yes, they all went up within a few weeks and yes, she is very busy but because she's a great doctor who gives a great service (some of her patients travel over 40 miles to see her).
really purple???!!! are all the rest of the rates for the other gp's the same???
my doctor drives a skoda and I nearly have to convince him to take the money, €45. Collins & co need not turn in their graves.
Yeah, but in Scotland, with life under the crown, such a trip would cost nothing at point of use. And any prescriptions would not cost anything either.
It is not the GP's fault that people have to pay at point of use but it is a lousy system.
How about no publically delivered primary (and very limited public delivery of hospital care) care but a national health insurance scheme (VHI, BUPA etc for those who can afford it and state insurance for those who can’t)? Hey presto; no two tier health system and a reimbursement scheme that can be used to control costs to the exchequer. This system is used in Holland and Belgium (the country with the best healthcare system in Europe) amongst others.
Independent socialist utopian republic.
Aren't we so better off than those people in Wales, NI and Scotland. Still occupied by the crown. Still having the NHS with its free GP visits, free or cheap prescriptions and a doctor who actually looks at you instead of getting a nurse to do it and justifying his €60 by sticking his head round the door and asking "everything OK here?".
Brave men fought and died to enable us to pay for those doctors' Mercedes.
I disagree. When people get something for nothing (or nothing at the point of care) they are far more likely to abuse it. Mrs Purple has been called to houses in the middle of the night because parents have run out of Calpol for their child. In her experience medical card patients account for over 70% of out of hours house calls yet less than one third of people are medical card holders. The same goes for A&E; people go there with a ailment that has been ongoing for weeks. Anyone presenting with such a complaint should be sent to their GP and told to make an outpatient appointment. Don’t get me going about people who present to E&E drunk or drugged; they cost the state tens if not hundreds of millions a year as they clog up the whole hospital system. The state should recover all costs from these people, even if it leaves them penniless.The notion of charging people for a GP visit is a disgrace. Charging in accident and emergency is even worse.
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