>>>>>>>Does your insurance cover 'scripts?
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>>>>>Sure you want to get into this? ;-)
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>>>>>OK: scripts cost a maximum $15, less if you're a frequent user. Oh, and if I travel to Australia or Europe, my healthcare is covered wherever I go at no extra cost. And dental care is free with no insurance up to 18 years of age. And most lab tests are free, and cervical/breast screening is free, as is care during/after pregnancy. Oh, better not leave this out: free contraception is available, but many women prefer to pay. ;-)
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>>>>Boy are you lucky you are an island on the other side of the world. Put nz on one of our borders and you're gonna have a big "undocumented resident" problem <bg> ( I'm even thinking of going to OZ and building a boat ... )
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>>>I'm amazed those Kiwis can put up with that level of socialism. Lucky for us in the UK that those plucky Tories are doing their best to dismantle the NHS so we can share in the miracle that is US style medicine. Never in the field of human health has so much been spent on so little by so many.
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>>You will never catch up with out enlightened system until Labor or whoever is shouting most loudly about being the progressive party of the people sells out to the trial lawyers to make legal liability a major component of medical cost and the reason to perform procedures that might otherwise be seen as unnecessary.
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>>However we do have some truly charismatic leaders like John Edwards who might be available as a consultant to show them how this works ( though I think he would prefer a gig someplace with no extradition )
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>I think with John Edwards inability to keep it in his pants and cavalier approach to financial donations he may be more suited to political life in France where I understand they are more tolerant of these little weaknesses.

Of course we haven't actually seen that sex tape that is out there somewhere. If he is dressed in leather women's lingerie the Tories may make a bid for him <g>