relevance?

I was rising to and taking the bait from Honest John where he said “Scrub – i’m still waiting for someone from the far right to make up some story about doing volunteer work in disadvantaged communities.”

So I am now waiting for him to say I am making it up.

We shold have an exchange programme where we send all these people who come up with excuses to some really hard and impoverished places in Southern and West Africa where I lived. They will come realising that a govt that even bothers to offer them $3 scrips is a God-sent.

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Relevance?

Are you seeking congratulations? If that’s what makes you happy, good on you.

Gouged $45 by a doctor?, hired a bloody lawyer or a plumber latley?

Typical bloody socialist, why do you have a problem paying for a professional persons time and service?

The whole point of a health service is for it to be as free as possible as the country can afford. I remember when going to my GP cost me 50 cents [ admittedly I was only earning $30 a fourtnight at the time and supporting wife and son.] Medical services should be ‘free’ and covered by our taxes. The lawyer and plumber are private businesses whose services are not paid for by the taxpayer. The ‘rich pricks’ stuffed up the trades in New Zealand when they cut down on apprenticeships which led to the current situation. Meanwhile they have been training lawyers like it was going out of fashion … absurd!

cheers for that Stu.

the thing is, the flow on effects of being poor in the phillipines doesn’t affect us directly. So maybe it’s a case of fixing up our own backyard before we go fixing up someone elses.

you reckon ?

For a person on permanent medication it is quite a money spinner for any PHO – particularly one in a provincial centre that has just one PHO – and quite a cost for anyone on NZ Super.

Their charge for a computer generated REPEAT prescription is $12.50. NO consultation, just bring up the data, print off the scrip, squiggle an initial and bill $12.50.

Since one GP rotates the duty each day it is money for jam. My sources tell me that he/she does up to 100 scripts per hour if required – not bad revenue for an already taxpayer subsidised activity.

It’s a no brainer we need an ePrescribing / RX exchange system in this country and we might get some decent data on this issue.

but what have you done for me and mine lately ?
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Why should he do anything? the poor in the Philippines are a damn sight poorer than in this nation. Having been long term unemployed at one point, and been overseas and seen first hand what being poor truly can be, I suggest that you are essentially full of it.

If I had brains that think like you have jcuknz I’d use buckshot to clear my head.

Shit that was some party!

but what have you done for me and mine lately ?

I volunteer every year for 2 weeks in the Philippines and help build houses for slum dwellers. So far I have helped build 7 houses, and paid for 3 of them.

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Regards

suckers for a good headline and bit of right wing spin eh ?

hahaha…you dumbass hillbillies crack me up no end.

Theres nothing to suggest its the 3 dollar subsidised prescription poor NZers can’t pay or that it’s exclusively a Pasifikan problem.

but hey don’t let me stop you from popping your blue collars in indignation, as if it’ll hide your red necks

as you were…

“Anyone who claims they have to leave their children ill because of a $3 part charge is either a wastrel or an idiot.”

You forgot one group, they are either a wastrel, an idiot or a socialist.

Gouged $45 by a doctor?, hired a bloody lawyer or a plumber latley?

Typical bloody socialist, why do you have a problem paying for a professional persons time and service?

Maori and Pacific people are especially hard-hit

so let all assume that it’s only poor Pasifikans, inclusive of Maori, getting one single $3 prescription per year subsidised by the govt that they cant afford to pay.

Then we’ll go off on some bullshit rant about how it’s only Pasifikans who make bad choices and that its total crap they cant afford 3 bucks when they can afford ciggies and KFC and sky tv

and disregard that it might be a poor white family getting a non subsidised prescription weekly or monthly that has missed out on their medication cos they had to re proritise spending towards power food and fuel ?

funny how you dogs come running rabidly to the whistle, frothing at the mouth, as soon as DPF cries foul on a Pasifikan.

Why is that ?