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Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost ... by Turing_Machine on Thursday February 09, 2023 @10:43AM (#34725598)
Ah, yes. The country that invented the "Liverpool Care Pathway" (i.e., let the patients die of thirst, sedate them when they complain) to save money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Care_Pathway_for_the...

As others have pointed out, it didn't cost "£0". It cost your fellow citizens the full amount. "The government" didn't pay her rent. Your fellow citizens did. "The government" didn't pay your father a carer's allowance. Your fellow citizens did. "The government" didn't pay for doctors and nurses to travel to her home. Your fellow citizens did.

Now, I, personally, would prefer to see massive reforms in the U.S. system. But pretending that any system is going to cost "£0" is just intellectually dishonest.

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Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost ... by mrtranscendence on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:22AM (#34726387)
What makes you think this is a relevant response? Everybody knows that the NHS is funded by taxes. This is not a secret, there's not some common misconception that health care isn't actually paid for with money. "Your fellow citizens [paid]" isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.
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Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost ... by Turing_Machine on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:31PM (#34727661)
> What makes you think this is a relevant response?

Because the OP was claiming it cost "£0", when it clearly did not.

> This is not a secret, there's not some common misconception that health care isn't actually paid for with money.

Maybe you should tell the OP, since he is clearly operating under that exact "misconception".

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Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost ... by mrguyorama on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:20PM (#34728676)
No you are just putting words in people's mouths. As an american, when I tell someone "I had to pay $400 to go get an ultrasound", nobody responds "ACKSHUALLY you paid $400 plus the $400 a month you pay for your premiums plus whatever funding comes from governments from your taxes". That point is only brought up to talk about how we actually pay a fuckload for healthcare even though it's a private industry and that's supposed to make it efficient or whatever.
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Re:My grandmother died at home, just as she wanted. It cost ... by Turing_Machine on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:52PM (#34754527)
> No you are just putting words in people's mouths.

Oh? So he didn't say "it cost £0"? I just made that up?

Spin harder, dude.

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