>>See now my mother had a stens op on her arteries a few years ago. Now she's got polyps or something in her bowels and has been in and out of hospital numerous times of late, for check-ups, consultations, whatever-oscopies, etc. This has cost us all nothing except for the NHI contribs she paid in during her working life. Even if she hadn't and had been unemplyed all her life it would have been the same.
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>>It's really hard for us to grasp a society where this isn't the norm.
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>If you were concerned with yourself at the expense of everyone else then you would “get it”. Every dog for himself! :)

Now vet bills! A sick animal costs more than a sick person! :-)