Presumably similar to the charge for an ambulance if you call it because you have a cut finger. More a fine than a charge.. maybe the express readers will think twice about clogging the surgery every time Tarquin has a headache.
Here in Australia my GP charges A$64 (£32) for a consultation and I can claim about half that back from Medicare (=NHS). If I get seriously ill and an ambulance is needed to take me to hospital I will be billed $$$. I bet that 99% of Mail/Express readers think that healthcare elsewhere in the world is BUPA standard and NHS free.
NOW it’s £1.50 off ‘OK’, they must be getting desperate to shift the grubby rag…………Obviously a slump in sales after the ‘tasteful’ Michael Jackson ‘tribute issue’.
Get an ambulence out to a road accident and you can expect a charge in the post too.
My dentist has started charging those people (without a seriously good excuse) who don’t turn up for appointments and those who cancel but don’t give 24 – 48hrs notice £50.
Dr’s should do something similar, it would discourage at least some of the time-wasters and save some scarce NHS money.
I saw Osbourne on Andrew Marr yesterday and he was talking about partly privatising the NHS (he didn’t say it in those words but the intention was clear) if the Tories got in. Is this linked to the headline, or are the DE just picking random words out of their headline generator as usual?
A “free” NHS is just an excuse to keep people out of this country and impose strict immigration quotas. There should be no free health service and no reason to keep out whoever want to come here.
Presumably similar to the charge for an ambulance if you call it because you have a cut finger. More a fine than a charge.. maybe the express readers will think twice about clogging the surgery every time Tarquin has a headache.
It’s been said before, but any headline starting with the word “Now…” should be disregarded as fabricated bullshine.
By the same token, the answer to any headline ending with a question mark is inevitably “no”.
Another non-story. An idea dreamt up by some right wing think tank but a million miles from becoming reality.
Another Express triumph.
Here in Australia my GP charges A$64 (£32) for a consultation and I can claim about half that back from Medicare (=NHS). If I get seriously ill and an ambulance is needed to take me to hospital I will be billed $$$. I bet that 99% of Mail/Express readers think that healthcare elsewhere in the world is BUPA standard and NHS free.
It’s not raining here!
Not raining here either, nor as far as I could tell from the cricket connentaries in London either.
NOW it’s £1.50 off ‘OK’, they must be getting desperate to shift the grubby rag…………Obviously a slump in sales after the ‘tasteful’ Michael Jackson ‘tribute issue’.
Let it rain until September. Then we will have won the Ashes.
Get an ambulence out to a road accident and you can expect a charge in the post too.
My dentist has started charging those people (without a seriously good excuse) who don’t turn up for appointments and those who cancel but don’t give 24 – 48hrs notice £50.
Dr’s should do something similar, it would discourage at least some of the time-wasters and save some scarce NHS money.
I’m not worried. The first line of the story says ‘Hard-working Britons will be force to pay £20′. I do sod all at work so I’m safe.
Today it’s been cloudy but no rain, so the Express’s headline is complete bollocks
I saw Osbourne on Andrew Marr yesterday and he was talking about partly privatising the NHS (he didn’t say it in those words but the intention was clear) if the Tories got in. Is this linked to the headline, or are the DE just picking random words out of their headline generator as usual?
‘Labour’ (sic) have practically privatised the NHS already, and everything else. What a great ‘choice’ awaits us at the next GE………….
It’s only going to rain on posh people, so that’s not so bad.
Wouldn’t the world be a better place if it cost £20 to see the Express instead?
A “free” NHS is just an excuse to keep people out of this country and impose strict immigration quotas. There should be no free health service and no reason to keep out whoever want to come here.
NOW they like the NHS.