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[Cabby]

Quote: [In regard to taxes]

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"I'm not sure how much we pay."

LOL!!!  Liberals, Socialists, Communists, whatever you want to call 'em, basic economics is not their strong suit.  Or understanding Human Nature either.

Now, i know you have to be a moron to be a Democrat, but to actually want to live under communism, i dunno, it's mind-boggling.......

Cabby

[LJK Raubvogel]

Dowding....the first part of my post refers to Communism...the 2nd part to Socialism. I'll take neither thank you.

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[Dowding]

Cabby - you are unwilling to be anything other than personal. I get the impression that if anyone holds a contrary view to your own, they must be a communist. You come across as a deeply paranoid individual; you must walk down the street fearing you're going to be part of a 'Red' revolution at any second.

 

Liberals, Socialists, Communists, whatever you want to call 'em...

By the same token: Nazis, republicans, conservatives, whatever you want to call them...

At least 1776 is willing to have a debate.

I don't know the exact figures because I'm on the move at the moment.

The same doctors do private and NHS work. With private work the patient pays, with NHS work the service pays. The problem is waiting times - some are greater than others.

I had to have a battery of tests done to try to diagnose epilepsy (I'm applying for officer training in the RAF). Privately, I could have had done in a week, but it would have cost me about £2000. With the NHS, I had them done within a month.

Keep your system - I'll keep mine.  

[Cabby]

Dowding:

You make a mistake in assuming i'm "debating".  I'm not.  I tell it like it is whether you, or anyone else, likes it or not.  I'm not here to convince you my postion is the right one.  

I couldn't care less what you think about what i post.  I just like to show you folks the read-out on my Liberal Bulls*** Meter from time to time.

I'm very familiar with the smear-tactics used by foaming-at-the-mouth Leftists the world over.  I enjoy giving you wacko socialists a taste of your own medicine.  

And no, i'm not afraid of any "Red" menace.  I'm way too well-armed to fear such a threat<g>.

Cabby

[1776]

You mean I may have to wait to have some basic tests done in the UK or pay an outragious price??  What a choise    Free markets(although it is under great presure in the US because of government intervention) would produce low costs and "service".

When I was 10 and living in a small town in Minnesota the doctor came to your house(anybody besides myself remember house-calls?)  I think my parents had to pay $10 per call.  The hospital in the town was controled by the city too if memeory serves me.  We have come along ways in such a short time!!!  But can you call it progress???

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[Dowding]

Cabby - "foaming at the mouth", "wacko" - pretty much describes your comment on Nader or your lumping together of Communists, Socialists and liberals. Monumental ignorance, if you ask me. Anybody, who has read your posts knows your not here to debate - I don't think you know how.

1776 - the tests weren't 'basic' by any means. I had a CT head scan (which I think is done using an NMR machine) - this is an expensive test no matter where you live.   I also had an EEG to test whether I had a brain...err... to test the electrical pathways in my brain.  

The only 'cheap' examination was a blood test.

We have house calls in this country if the patient is too ill to be moved, or is elderly, by on call GP's (General Practitioners). But most people would wait until the morning and visit the GP's surgery.

Like I said before, it ain't perfect, but it works for the most part.

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[Dnil]

those tests are kinda basic here.  Had all of those before, all scheduled within a day or whenever i wanted to do them and they were paid for by my insurance that i had through my workplace.

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