Thread: Blair 'powerless over dentists'
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Old 30-09-2005, 15:45   #12
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Re: Blair 'powerless over dentists'
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Originally Posted by Chris T
What? Private medical insurance is famous for its maximum treatment limits! The ambulance drives both ways, you know. Plenty of people with chronic conditions eventually have no option but to revert to the NHS when their private cover decides they are eating too much of their profit.
and plenty don't, this is more prevelant in personal, not corporate private medical cover. The biggest problem I have found this has brought for people is job mobility. I had former colleague who's wife was being treated privately for cancer, the job he had signed up for was no longer there, and he certainly was not enjoying his current role, but was unable to look for alternate employment as the new employers private medical cover would not take on his wife as now there was a pre-exisiting medical condition.

NHS dentistry is a prime example of what is wrong with the Labour governments 3rd way, not enough tax taken to pay the dentists privately, yet sufficient taken that we all object to having to pay privately for something our taxes should pay for.
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