
:D
i dont know why people complain about the NHS, at least its 'free'*, if you want a higher standard of health care, pay for it!
*albeit a small amount of 'national insurance tax'
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i dont know why people complain about the NHS, at least its 'free'*, if you want a higher standard of health care, pay for it!
*albeit a small amount of 'national insurance tax'

People may well complain about it, but the fact of the matter is that we do have one of the best healthcare systems in the world, if not the best and some of the best doctors in the world, for free :D
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Thu 15 Jan 2009, 9:50,
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we're about 13th in the world for healthcare that is provided by government and we're fifth in what we pay.
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they'll sell your liver to pay for an ambulence ride*
*may be over-exagerating but it's early and I'm buzzing on coffee and redbull
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*may be over-exagerating but it's early and I'm buzzing on coffee and redbull

It's like here, except nicer in most of the ways I can think of. Hmph.
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Although some places have "smoking rooms"
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if you never had to leave Meissen or Heidelburg except to go to Lübeck or Rostock for a holiday.
That's a Germany I could live in quite easily.
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That's a Germany I could live in quite easily.

and I guess I should emphasise that most of my experience of Germany has been in Berlin, where the cunt quotant is pretty high
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