It costs €1000 per child.It's driving me nuts.
As in "Free Bus Service" for pupils.
It's not free, it's state funded - as in paid for by the tax payer.
nothing should be declared as "free" and in my opinion nothing should be given as free, everything should have some charge as there is no appreciation to anything no matter how valuable it really is , that includes water , doctors visits , refuse , cheques etc.
Wastage will dramatically drop if people pay something small towards these major expenses.
Yep, "free" healthcare is the biggest nonsense of the whole lot.
purple said:Why is the state paying a 30% premium for the volume purchase of services? In every other sector you get a discount for bulk buying.
In my last job I used to hear people talking about getting Free School books/clothes, free doctors appointments and so on, it used to drive me mad.
I have lived in the UK and the best thing they could do with doctors is introduce a fee for appointments. We used to have roughly a 2-3 weeks waiting time for an appointment or you could book in for the emergency clinic which was invariably full of people with colds.
Don't know where you were based in the UK, but The longest I have ever had to wait for an appointment to see my doctor is 2 days; if I tell them it's an emergency I can see him inside 30 minutes. (Yes it is a NHS practice.)
I cant see the problem with the word is!
Its use meaning "no charge to the consumer" is clear and unambiguous.
So if I offer you "free" pizza you get to eat it and I get to pay the costs associated with you getting it.
I cant see the problem with the word is!
Its use meaning "no charge to the consumer" is clear and unambiguous.
So if I offer you "free" pizza you get to eat it and I get to pay the costs associated with you getting it.
Don't know where you were based in the UK, but The longest I have ever had to wait for an appointment to see my doctor is 2 days; if I tell them it's an emergency I can see him inside 30 minutes. (Yes it is a NHS practice.)
But in the case of state services the person who consumes the service is actually paying for it, just not directly.
The average fee paid by the state to GP’s for medical card patients per visit is €65.
The average fee charged by GP’s for private patients is €50.
Why is the state paying a 30% premium for the volume purchase of services? In every other sector you get a discount for bulk buying.
GMS payments to GP’s should be cut by 30% (minimum). This should apply to medical card patients as well as non-medical card services that are covered by the HSE such as prenatal care and methadone services. There should also be a small fee for medical card patients to see their GP and a larger fee to get the GP to call out to see them(fee is deducted from the payment made by the state to the GP).
Here’s another thing people can do; they can take a piece of paper and write on it “the government doesn’t have any money; it spends my money and I have to repay the loans it takes out”. Then that piece of paper should be copied and stuck to the wall in every room in the house and in every workplace.
Isn't it more like everyone is paying for it, not just the person consuming the service?
Here are my observation with dentists. Until last year I got 2 "free" checkups a year paid for out of my PRSI contributions. At the time my dentist charged €70 per visit, so I was paying €240 a year for myself and my wife to have regular check ups. Now that the PRSI payment is gone the same dentist only charges €50 per visit. It is a perfect example of how government subsidies cause an increase in prices. If in the past the government had levied €140 less a year in PRSI on the average taxpayer, and not paid for dental visits, then the average person would have been €40 better off.
Yeah but PRSI isn't actually reduced so now your 4 dental visits cost you €480 per year (4 x €70 = €280)
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