On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:30:08 +0100, "Turan Fettahoglu"
wrote:
>>>Patients "cannot, in one episode of treatment, be treated on the
>>>N.H.S. and then allowed, as part of the same episode and the same
>>>treatment, to pay money for more drugs," the health secretary, Alan
>>>Johnson, told Parliament.
>>
>> And why not??
>
>There is no reason.
>
>The German health insurance system has stopped paying for "everything", but
>the consequence is that you have to pay the difference yourself - up to a
>certain percentage of your income.
or take out private insurance to cover the difference?
>
>It is just plain rubbish if the NHS insists "either we pay what we consider
>appropriate or you pay the lot and we do not pay a penny".
It's not rubbish, it's the rule, you either have NHS treatment or you have
private treatment.
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Martin
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