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1. 4,000 Nurses strike for patient care.

   getmeoutofhere replied to Chico David's topic in Union

   Better to have fought and lost than to have never fought at all. Nurses in the Australian state of Victoria went on strike and delivered improvements both for themselves and their patients. Perhaps you can explain how, if patient care is being compro...

2. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   No problems happy to share my experience and/or knowledge. Re the Conservatives, they know that "fear of the unknown" works for some, as well as underlying belief that the private sector is good, state bad. On the last point, as poorly paid public...

3. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   Why don't you provide your qualifications and experience that allow you to doubt the content of the wiki links supplied. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx If you have any queries, maybe you should do your own res...

4. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   I don't have much time, so I'll address these two paragraphs, if you have answered these points in the rest of your post then accept my apologises. Which part of the wikipedia entries do you think inaccurate? As someone who lives in the UK (or Englan...

5. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   Howabout we get the terminology right for the systems used in Europe? We have two systems, the "Beveridge" system (loosely used to refer to tax based systems), and the "Bismarckian" which is based around a plethora of competing insurance organisation...

6. Universal Healthcare

   getmeoutofhere replied to Chellyse's topic in Activism

   1) Quality costs, tell that to 1.2 million who have losted their jobs and healthcare insurance in the past few months. 2) I would guess more americans come over here to get heathcare for free than those we sent over for paid healthcare. 3) i'll let ...

7. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24652940-5017906,00.html

8. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   In theory but in practice you hear of the senior nurses being downgraded, especially since DoH fouled up on GP and consultant payrises Public symapthy doesn't pay the bills. Irish nurses are more than happy to give it up for a decent payrises and i...

9. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

   getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

   Not sure our pay can be levelled to that, the RCN been campaigning for decent pay for four decades. Any analysis could say it's down to the gender make up, the no or effectively no strike clause it's has as well as other reasons. if we copied nurses ...

10. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

    Really! most reports i read from americans about the us model make me glad that their an ocean separating me from it. if their is a god, thank you!

11. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

    Really, my experience is that the private sector provides services that cost more and are poorer than when run by the State. And i cannot think of too many private sector healthcare providers who pay more than the nhs!

12. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

    Well, reading another forum on healthcare, one of ther posters said that when she switched insurance companies when pregnant, the company refused to cover that costs as it was a pre-existing condition. wouldn't happen here in the uk!

13. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

    Well here in the uk that major private sector companies have one thing in common, sack the little guy or reduce the terms and conditions they work under and then you discover that the CEO has seen a massive pay-rise. can you be sure it won't happen w...

14. Socialized Medicine....WHAT IF?

    getmeoutofhere replied to unclebenny20's topic in Activism

    The best five healthcare systems in Europe could be said to be a mixture.

15. What is the opposition to Universal Healthcare

    getmeoutofhere replied to ChicagoRN2010's topic in Activism

    Can you explain how the current system which includes thousands looking for excuses to avoid paying out treatment going to be less than a uhc system? maybe you should demonstrate the administrative costs for the systems in europe as you'll find they ...