Topic: Why

[Clive]

Why should I pay £5.00 for a movie ticket when I can see the same
movie on TV for £30.00 a month?

[sam]

£5 for an adult movie ticket is pretty cheap... but as a student I can get two tickets for £3.50 

[Camstop]

Why should we all pay £6.85 for each prescription when you pay nowt 

  

[sam]

i pay £6.85 for each prescription - students aren't necessarily entitled to free prescriptions.

[Camstop]

Sorry Sam. That was aimed at Clive 


It's a Welsh thing 

[Clive]

I'm surprised Alex Salmond hasn't sorted you out on that score Cammy.   

[sam]

oh I see... lol.. sorry didn't mean to sound like I took offence - it just annoys me the way the government does not support students at all (though there are way too many of us... not that I like to be considered in the same block as most though).

[sam]

oh and I'm sure clive can get the concessionary tickets at the cinema as well....

[Simon]

... and the concessionary bus fare to get there!   

[Camstop]

It was just a tongue in cheek prod at the fact the Welsh don't pay for prescriptions while the rest of the UK pay £6.85 for each one. 

But then now each country of the UK runs it's own health service spending (as if ), we all seemingly have different needs and all have concessions on summit or another 

Nevermind, i'm sure the MP's will find some way or another to justify their proposed wage rise even if it is just to keep in-line with the rail travel ticket increase 


Where's Tony when ya need him? 

[sam]

didnt realise the welsh got their prescriptions completely free... sounds like they have been following Cuba.. which is possibly a good thing... unless us English are picking up the bill 

[davy51]

oh I see... lol.. sorry didn't mean to sound like I took offence - it just annoys me the way the government does not support students at all (though there are way too many of us... not that I like to be considered in the same block as most though).

Try it on this side of the water
we pay 100% of all meddical,dental,eye and prescriptions
or we have to pay large sums for insurance coverage

plus 100% of our colledge education

we do get primary and secondary schooling for free with taxpayers money

[Clive]

Hell, I even get my £200 a year winter fuel allowance!      

The difference is Davy that you have far higher standards of health care in the US so it's worth paying.  Go into hospital in the UK and you come out with more diseases than you went in with!   

[davy51]

Hell, I even get my £200 a year winter fuel allowance!      

The difference is Davy that you have far higher standards of health care in the US so it's worth paying.  Go into hospital in the UK and you come out with more diseases than you went in with!   

it's getting bad here you go in with a broken leg and come out with some other desease

i am sorry to hear your health care is bad
everyone has a human right to good health care thats what i believe

[Sandra]

Dont forget Davy that we already pay a lot of money for our NHS through our compulsory national insurance (NI) payments.
When I was in Australia in the 1980s I compared how much a month I was paying in NI each month to friends of my brothers with similar income to mine and their private health insurance worked out at around half of what I paid.
This gave them better and quicker medical treatment, including dentist fees, which have always been expensive here, even if you are lucky enough to get a National Health dentist.

Obviously if you are unemployed and havent saved any money from your previous employments or are an illegal immigrant on benefits who has never paid into the system then dentistry is free, along with all the other financial incentives to come and live here