Chit-Chat a good ol' fashioned DCC! Page 52

Started by Flowerchild October 14th, 2020 12:57 PM
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Healthcare in this country is a mixed bag. Without the NHS I wouldn't be able to afford the prescription I need to live because the cost of my medication is terrifyingly astronomical from private suppliers (it'd cost me about £300 a month, whilst on the NHS I pay £10.59 per month) but I wouldn't even consider seeing an NHS dentist or mental health services again. The NHS dentist wanted to send me to hospital for a tooth extraction, and I suffered for 4 years with a misdiagnosis when I was seeing mental health services...something that still affects me now, honestly. To the point that I can't even talk to my GP about my mental health for fear he'll want to send me back there and I won't be able to do anything to prevent it. I find it amusing that despite the general pride in the NHS a lot of people here still use private healthcare.

This country's idea for social care now is to excessively tax the people who can least afford to pay. Which is super.

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that reminds me to run for Prime Minister in the Netherlands

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Here, healthcare is administered by the provinces, as is education. As such, the care and education you receive in one province will differ from others.
I got this first hand when I moved to Ontario. Being a maritimer, they all thought I was less intelligent and treated me like I didn't understand anything. I was constantly signaled out and it was frustrating. That changed in college though, as I'd been a citizen from the start.

Moving back to NS, I'm actually wondering if my Ontario college degrees will translate.

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i just had to pay veterinary bills for rather simple investigations, and the steep sum of it made me really appreciate basically having to pay nothing for human health care
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I think the government should cover dental too.
The teeth are important, and overly infected teeth can lead to blood poisoning. Happened to a friend of mine 10ish years back.

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yea i don't think taxes cover dental here once you've turned 18. but before that, iirc it's actually 100% free? something near-free at least.
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Yeah, it's free for kids here, which is good! But adults still have teeth :c

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I'm so so grateful for the NHS. And my dentist is lovely but sadly expensive :(.

*Gets ready for bed as I have a VERY early train journey tomorrow. Curls up and closes eyes. Two seconds later my husband walks into the bedroom*

"Hey. Want to see a cool moth?"

*I jump out of bed wide awake*

"All the yes"

He knows me too well 😂.

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UK healthcare sounds better than ours at any rate.
Hospitals stopped giving life saving treatments/surgeries, so the death toll is going to be huge.

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UK healthcare is wonderful, until it isn't. They are very stretched with the resources the government give them, but even then, the NHS can be extremely discriminatory to certain people.


Anyway... how are you lovely forum peeps? I hope life is treating you all well 😊
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i'm good! had a very relaxing weekend so am ready for a productive werk week 💪

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Federal election day and my ass overslept AGAIN

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Which one? The wal mart here has a comprehensive selection but I'm not sure of the US.

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We can't order off amazon, the delivery workers don't have access to our mail boxes so packages get stolen regularly. Can't wait till we move.

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It says a lot about how far as a species we've come when people shoot down others because they dared to tell them to wear a mask... <_<
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The people who say "this generation takes offense to everything" are the same ones who take offense to the smallest things like being asked to wear a mask or seeing a gay couple on TV.

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I hate the term 'snowflake'. It's obnoxiously used in political disagreements and has little to do with anybody actually being offended.

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I find snowflake isn't used much any more. Instead they're saying it's just younger people in general but I know a good amount of people here, some in their 30's, would disagree with such a mindset.

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