[lit-ideas] Re: health care

  • From: "Veronica Caley" <vcaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:53:24 -0500

Hi Judy,

Thank you.  I understand now.

Veronica


> [Original Message]
> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/26/2004 3:13:34 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: health care
>
> Friday, November 26, 2004, 7:33:10 PM, Veronica Caley wrote:
>
> VC> Judy:?99 p.a.
>
> VC> Judy, what does the J and p.a. stand for?  
>
> hello Veronica 
>
> p.a. is per annum, I probably got the wrong format.  (Incidentally it's
more like £88 than £99!)  
>
> "J"?  I can't see a stray one but it's most likely a typing error: I'm
having real problems (motor control) and am about to move back to voice
computing!
>
> -- if there is a J that doesn't look like a slip, let me know
>
> Judy
>
>
> VC> Veronica
>
>
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: 11/25/2004 2:46:56 PM
> >> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: health care
> >>
> >> Thursday, November 25, 2004, 11:38:32 AM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> Jac> Judy, Teemu, Erin, John, anyone else outside of the US -- I'm
> VC> curious --
> >> Jac> what does a standard Doctor's office visit cost you, in U.S.
> VC> dollars?  
> >>
> >> zero
> >>
> >>
> >> What
> >> Jac> would a regimine of 10 days of amoxicillan run? 
> >>
> >>
> >> zero - as I have already paid my £99 p.a. "prescription pre-payment --
> VC> and it would be zero if I were exempt from charges: details here (for
> VC> England: in Wales, further categories of people are exempt).
> >>
> >> www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23069022/ 
> >>
> >>
> >> otherwise, whatever a prescription item costs; £6.40 (but in Wales,
£5.0,
> VC> and the Welsh Assembly intends abolishing all charges by 2007).
> >>
> >>
> >> >  or a CAT scan?
> >>
> >>
> >> zero on the NHS.  But there would -- normally, and hereabouts -- be a
> VC> wait. I only had to wait a month for a totally non-urgent NHS MRI,
because
> VC> the Cardiff medics make good use of cancellations, ringing people who
live
> VC> nearby and can take up a place at short notice. That MRI (of both
knees)
> VC> done privately at the local BUPA (main private health insurers)
hospital
> VC> would have cost approximately 940 USD.  
> >>
> >> I have no idea what private GPs charge for appointments, nor what
private
> VC> prescriptions cost nor what the drugs cost
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>  Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK   
> mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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