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Meg:
Not sure at all. Sorry to say I dont know whether to trust the GP's any more than the PCT's.  It may still be a cost cutting exercise for the patient and then there might be further erosion of the good relations which should exist between GP and patient, already maybe at a low ebb!

Meg

Suzi Q:
We have no prblems in Ozz?
We pay $60 to see a GP get about $30 back in Medicare rebate you go to a centre to get it back
We pay for btests xrays everyhing thats not in a Hospital situation
Theres no people dropping dead in the street If oyu need a transplant you get one
Its just no a dependant society we pay taxes same as home just as much We dont earn much more
But we are expected and get taxed at a higher rate if we dont also take out Private health insurance
AND ITS A LABOUR GOVERNMENT over 30 you pay higher medicare levy (tax) if you dont take out private insurance
So you dont have that holiday in Torrmalinos or a new car every 4th year here its expected that YOU PAY
People  dont expect taxpayers to subsidise them I know when I came here I was stunned shocked beyond words
Now to me too its normal that I pay Im off now to a Dental Tech I will pay 170pounds nothing from medicare
They dont cover teeth eyes list goes on so you HAVE to have private I will probably get 70pounds back from Pmedicine

Elena:
The GPs aren't getting the final say in how money is spent/services are used etc.  They have to answer to a new Quango which the govt has introduced.  In fact despite the idea being to cut bureaucracy (sp?!) new levels are being introduced.  It's all a bit smoke and mirrors.

Suzi Q:
Pen pushers making more jobs for themselves buggars xxxxxx

Rowan:
I just asked my OH what he thought, he said  that he did not think so and he says that GPs may not know enough about budgeting  or have the management skills and it could result in uneven provision from surgery to surgery.

He is a retired banker so he maybe thinking of it from that angle.

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