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<title>Posted by jdships, Edinburgh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have an appointment for a cataract op less than eight weeks after seeing the Consultant .
No complaints at that !!!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:56:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by Statsman, Edinburgh</title>
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<description><![CDATA[6 Navvy

Smokers pay huge amounts of tax ostensibly to pay for their own treatment. If smokers are to be refused treatment then the tax should also disappear from a packet of cigarettes.

Arguably, with all the rationing of healthcare extremists like you want, people should be able to opt out of the NHS financially and instead pay their tax to a private insurer.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by Navvy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Strange
Britain is overpopulated so IVF should not be free. Likewise Cosmetic surgery,and self inflicted injuries like most obesity and smoking related cancers and alcohol caused illness should not be free

It is not possible for everything to be free on the NHS and the sooner we recognise that the sooner we will have a good and timely delivered service]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:02:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by ddmc</title>
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<description><![CDATA[#1 we do have private medical care in the UK as well as NHS, in fact before a stay in a BUPA hospital your checked for MRSA two weeks before admission, although this is more to do with stopping lawsuits than health of the patient.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:11:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by John JP</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I bet the Norwegian health authorities will be waiting at the Ryanair Airport with carbolic soap and steel wool to scrub the Edinburgh punters down in case they bring MRSA with them.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:11:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by Snowy Bottles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have not researched price differentials for IVF between Scotland and Norway  but I know it is not permitted for same sex couples in Norway.

On Dental Care I recieved a check up with two dental X-Rays for £4.40 in Scotland which I have on good authority would have cost over £65 in Norway. So I don't realy see the benefit there. Plus a good proportion of dentist in Norway are from Central and Eastern Europe. So if intent on paying and traveling for medical care why not cut put the middle man and go straight to Hungary!

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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:16:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by donald, glasgow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I had a cataract operation last year at Stobhill Hospital Glasgow and was home the same day. It cost me nothing and all the staff and facilities were excellent.

I wouldn't have minded a free trip to Norway though.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:05:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Posted by Alexander the Scot, Michigan, U.S.A.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm puzzled, so perhaps the more informed readers of the Scotsman will be able to enlighten me.  Why would it be necessary to pay two thousand Pounds for a cataract operation anywhere in the British Isles? Does the National Health Service not come free of charge? Of course nothing is free, but do the deductions from wages not act as Insurance premiums to cover all of the costs?
Am I to suspect that those with money can circumvent a waiting list in Britain and pay doctors twice the price that of the Norwegian doctors while the lesser mortals can choose to go to Norway or wait in an endless line?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:41:13 GMT</pubDate>
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