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BINGO! BTW they have NO dental care under NHS, IIRC.
Meanwhile, many Brits are moving to Florida to get REAL health care.
youbetcha - golly, what a “wonderful” thing that would be... :-(
what?
Sociaized Medical care is soooooo good. We Must have it here is the US. < / puking sarc
What's so magical about hearing aids that these people have become convinced they need to 'wait' two years to obtain them just because someone working for the State said so? These hearing aids are items. They are items that people want. They are regularly manufactured by other humans. If the people who want those items were willing to pay those other humans for them, it is likely that someone would be willing to supply them to said people, without any "wait" whatsoever.
For some reason this possibility doesn't seem to cross the mind of the vast majority of people once they become inured to "national", "free" this or that.
The idea that their (in this case) health care is "free" is similarly stupid. It's not true that these people are getting hearing aids for "free"; they are paying for hearing aids by waiting in a queue lasting two years and suffering those two years in silence. I don't know how much hearing aids cost but if they could slap a hundred bucks or three on the table and walk away with a hearing aid tomorrow, isn't it possible that's a better tradeoff? Doesn't this occur to anybody? I know, I know, that's truly thinking outside the box....paying (gasp) actual money for the goods and services you desire? Barbaric.
No, it's better to suffer in virtual deafness for two years. That's the humane way.
It's lovely that they have a "framework" but unless you can stick that framework in your ear it doesn't actually do the patients much good, does it?
Here is a market that can be addressed by a technology that is widely available and relatively cheap. Only a government could screw that up.
For an excellent analysis of socialized medicine, read Thomas Sowell's Applied Economics.
Jebus, the target is 18 weeks?? Wonder what they do for diabetics or heart patients?
Maybe the government is hoping some of these folks will commit suicide or die in order to reduce health costs?
So when you get a hearing aid, is it the one you need now or the one you needed two years ago?
I offered to purchase a hearing aid for my deaf buddy, who was short of cash. But, he wouldn’t hear of it!
hildebeast care
They’ve already won. The argument isn’t over who should provide health care. It’s over how good it is expected to be.
When this comes to America, all the Dems will do is claim to provide more and better.
Just like they do for all their constituencies.