On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 04:44:34 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:

James Wilkinson wrote
Dave Liquorice wrote
James Wilkinson wrote

In my entire life, the only thing the NHS fixed for me was a couple of
broken bones.

So you didn't get the arm full of childhood vaccinations?

A hell of a lot of parents think those do more harm than good.

More fool them.

Why?

And those who want their kids to have them should pay for them. I don't
have kids and don't want to pay for other kids' vaccinations.

But I bet the state did pay for yours.

I wasn't working at the time.

You've not been abroad and had vaccinations for the common nasties out
there? (Though some are not available on the NHS, Rabies springs to
mind).

I've been abroad and am not pathetically paranoid. So I didn't get any
vaccinations.

You have never had any NHS prescriptions from a GP, Out patient, In
patient?

Not any that did me any good, no.

You are not registered with a GP? Presumably if you want routine
medical treatment/advice you see a GP as a private patient?

Routine?!? You see a GP routinely?!?

If you need scrapping up off the road which private A&E department
via which private ambulance service are you going to use?

I'll pay for that IF I need it. I don't want to pay for others'
misfortune.

All that for less than £2.80/week

Ah the classic of reducing the timescale to make it look smaller. Sky TV
do that and tell you what you pay per day.

Class 2 Self Employed (+ Class 4 on
any profits) or £14.10/week Class 3 Voluntary(*). Only a proportion
of those amounts goes to the NHS, Class 2 provides Basic and New
State Pension, Contribution based Employment and Support Allowance,
Maternity Allowance and Bereavement benefits. Class 3 doesn't have
the ESA or Maternity Allwances.

(*) Except that Class 2 at least has been abolished and included in
the Class 4 contributions. The actual cost of the NHS to the
individual is not that much.

Please speak in English.

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