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The 2015 HAMISH MCTAVISH Predictions Thread
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irrelevant
future goods and services are produced by future generations
there has NEVER been any other way
are you sure you every studied economics? sure it wasn't accountancy or book keeping?
and even worst that guy that believes in the productivity lump of labour fallacy thanked you: be concerned!
Better hope that immigrants want to keep coming to the UK.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »the terrorist threat will be higher in Europe.
THE Tampa Bay Buccaneers won't finish 32nd out of 32
The current UK Threat level was increased to SEVERE a couple of weeks before Xmas, but this was not widely publicised.
The Panthers won the NFC S this year with a 7-8-1 record, so the challenge appears to be to finish 8-8 to get to the play-offs next year.'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'0 -
Damned right there.
NHS charges £8.10 a pop for generics that cost them about a quid. If that.
Edit: of course; NHS England charges £8.10 a pop. NHS Wales, Scotland, and NI don't charge anything at all, I believe.
about 90% of England's prescriptions are free as children, retired, unemployed, disabled etc etc are exempt0 -
about 90% of England's prescriptions are free as children, retired, unemployed, disabled etc etc are exempt
Gosh, you'd almost think it would be a good idea to import lots of young workers that rarely use the health service and pay for their prescriptions when they do, not to mention subsidise all the old people that are currently draining the NHS.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
The NHS is almost entirely uncharged. Users pay prescription charges which bear no resemblance to the cost of the drugs used. Apart from that the only cost I've come across is time.
If you agree that there is an ongoing promise in that all political parties have made a commitment that the NHS will remain 'free at the point of delivery' then that will have to be paid for in future in some way.
A promise to pay money in future is a liability. Either there is an asset somewhere which can be used to pay that liability (e.g. a pot of money or a fund of some sort) or there isn't. I am not aware of any sort of asset that is available to fund the liability that is the future cost of the NHS and so that is an unfunded liability.
I'd be very happy to understand that my sister's and niece's healthcare can be paid for from a pot of money I have never heard of. If that cash doesn't exist then the future liabilities are unfunded and I fear that my sister or perhaps her daughter will potentially face a life without the NHS having been unable to save for their own futures due to the very high taxes being paid to support a welfare state that is unlikely to be affordable in its current configuration.
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Like others I do not understand your logic.
The NHS is funded by some charges but mainly by taxation.
I accept that there is a political view that individuals should pay directly for their healthcare, but there is an equally valid political view that we pay for it through taxation. Depending on your definition, either both are unfunded or neither is. One relies on the ability of people to pay the necessary level of taxation and the other on the ability of individuals to afford insurance premiums.
If you pay for healthcare through personal insurance and at some point cannot afford the premium it is just as unfunded as a concept that people suddenly refuse to pay tax.
Your sister can never be sure that she will be treated for any conceivable ailment for the rest of her life. One system will make that choice on a needs and benefit basis, the other on whether she can personally afford insurance and is deemed an insurable risk. Both are driven by cost and neither is guaranteed.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Gosh, you'd almost think it would be a good idea to import lots of young workers that rarely use the health service and pay for their prescriptions when they do, not to mention subsidise all the old people that are currently draining the NHS.
Yes, they could then go home when they become decrepit.:)Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
Better hope that immigrants want to keep coming to the UK.
that would be a consistent view from some-one that believes the productivity lump of labour fallacy
and so bizarrely thinks that any significant increase in the production of goods and service per capita would somehow damage the Uk0 -
If there is so much waist In the NHS why can't we just pay clever people to change the systems that cause the waist like any other institution ?Proudly voted remain. A global union of countries is the only way to commit global capital to the rule of law.0
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All this is very interesting, but I'm still worried about chocolate going up as this will impact on behaviour of people and cause far more turmoil than anything else in these lists....
Now, where did I put my Crunchie?0
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