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General election 2024

Last night's question on private healthcare.

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1dayatatime · 05/06/2024 11:05

Cost aside, would you use private healthcare if a loved one were on a long waiting list for surgery.

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NoWordForFluffy · 10/06/2024 15:59

He's flip flopping all over the place!

Brainfarter · 11/06/2024 15:45

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MrsSkylerWhite · 11/06/2024 19:57

NoWordForFluffy · Yesterday 15:59
He's flip flopping all over the place

What an original phrase. Let me think, who was it originally used against, in the Covid investigation?
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SpringBunnies · 05/06/2024 11:32
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Yes. Starmer is either a liar, or he hasn't need to make that decision before

It’s not that simple. I always believed I’d choose NHS over private, mostly because for serious issues the care and facilities are better but also because I believe in the institution.
Would have sworn blind to anyone that would be my choice. I wasn’t lying. That’s what I believed.

Then, my husband was in a coma in an hospital bed for 12 days, and no number of ologists had any idea why. Every organ was failing and the head of intensive care held my hands and teared up as he told me they estimated a less than 5% chance of recovery.

At that moment, I’d have paid anyone who offered hope everything we owned. And probably have murdered every other person in ICU so that he was treated first. Hell, I’d probably have sold my grandmother to satan.

He survived. Has an incredibly rare genetic disorder that sometimes flares up just once in a lifetime (he was in his late 50s). The majority of people with it die at the first episode. Or it could happen again tomorrow.

Ironically, now we know what it is I’d far, far prefer NHS treatment at the specialist unit in Newcastle.

NoWordForFluffy · 11/06/2024 20:36

@MrsSkylerWhite, dunno who said it actually. I don't remember it being said! The benefits of peri mean I remember very little, unless it's of vital importance. 🤷‍♀️ So, no gotcha from you.

MrsSkylerWhite · 11/06/2024 21:27

It was about Boris Johnson. Remember him? That highly competent leader with integrity a plenty.

As I suspect you know. Funny. I’m way into menopause at 60 and remember it very clearly.

NoWordForFluffy · 11/06/2024 21:49

MrsSkylerWhite · 11/06/2024 21:27

It was about Boris Johnson. Remember him? That highly competent leader with integrity a plenty.

As I suspect you know. Funny. I’m way into menopause at 60 and remember it very clearly.

Funny. Peri / menopause affects everyone differently. Fucking shocker of a fact. Here's a lovely website to educate yourself on it.

And no, I didn't recall at all, actually. So you can stop calling me a liar.

BIossomtoes · 11/06/2024 21:55

NoWordForFluffy · 11/06/2024 21:49

Funny. Peri / menopause affects everyone differently. Fucking shocker of a fact. Here's a lovely website to educate yourself on it.

And no, I didn't recall at all, actually. So you can stop calling me a liar.

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Could you be more patronising?

NoWordForFluffy · 11/06/2024 22:18

BIossomtoes · 11/06/2024 21:55

Could you be more patronising?

Maybe she shouldn't use my medical condition as a weapon against me to suggest I'm lying. Notice you don't call her out on that!

She's the one who said her memory was fine despite menopause. She deserved the reply she got, frankly, given her implication.

She either knew of memory issues as a symptom and pretended she didn't to use it against me. Or she didn't know and needed educating.

So get over yourself, I see you for what you are too.

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