NHS paracetamol is super expensive too. They end up paying some absurd amount (I'm sure I remember £7 as the figure), just due to the various overheads attached to dispensing medication and tracking it all. For reference the public can buy pills for less than 2p each.
There was a big thing in the news about it a few years back because people were getting upset that doctors weren't readily prescribing it but instead recommending it be taken.
It does point to a strange structural inefficiency somewhere
The £7 ish (now £9) the prescription charge, which only exists in England
It's a flat fee paid by anyone recieving prescription medication and the cost was arrived at by working out all the costs due to prescribing that are not the cost of the medication itself (for everything from paracetamol to ultra niche oncology drugs) and dividing by the number of prescriptions issued. Them reducing it a bit because it seemed bigger than people would accept.
Functionally it's an additional tax that you pay if you get sick in England, which is the logic that lead to it being abolished elsewhere, since creeping monetisation is generally seem to be at odds with the "free at the point of use" mantra.
In practice it just led to the weird situation you describe, where it isn't worth prescribing anything that costs less than the charge and is otherwise available OTC.
Please do not use fire to draw out your gross meat creature juices.
But the steak juices mixing with the sauteed mushrooms is like the entire point of me putting the mushrooms on the grill in the first place.
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My ex and I once looked at buying a very nice older home in a historical district in Dallas. Downstairs, it had three living rooms, a tiny closet of a kitchen, and three bedrooms upstairs sharing a single bathroom. It had the original windows from the 1930s, which looked amazing but had the environmental efficiency of a screen door in a tornado.
My toilet is right next to the kitchen. Old homes or indicative of my cooking skills, you decide.
Old homes have a ton of charm, but even more disastrous planning, design, and material use. I would only buy an older home if I had a ton of expendable income to put back into it.
Yup in my experience "ton of charm" translates into "Oh hey this is charming->fast forward six months->Oh hey this is actually super fucking annoying and oh my god why would anyone build it this way" and then cut to either months if not years of renovations or just flat out selling the house.
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And Jesus, talk about being a fire trap
Victorians are all-wood, from floor to exterior, built before many homes even had electricity
Just . . no
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My gramma legit had a house with a tower.
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Victorians are all-wood, from floor to exterior, built before many homes even had electricity
Just . . no
And in many cases the electricity they have was installed when safety standards were, um, lets go with lax. Sure virtually non-existent is more accurate but lax sounds nicer.
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Victorians are all-wood, from floor to exterior, built before many homes even had electricity
Just . . no
And in many cases the electricity they have was installed when safety standards were, um, lets go with lax. Sure virtually non-existent is more accurate but lax sounds nicer.
Or put in by people years after the house was built, exposed cabling everywhere.
I’m sorry. I’m not a huge fan of Victorians. They’re twee rat mazes made of kindling, asbestos, and lead paint.
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NL does the same. If you go the pharmacy, there is a €7 "explanation fee" on every drug.
This sucks a lot for people with really cheap medicine that they take daily (Like people on the cheapest statines)
I saw a bill at work, where there was €13 of medicine and €42 to explain it.... to a person who had been taking them for a decade.
It's a cornerstone of the funding structure, but it leans the hardest on people who can afford it the least.....
In NL, houses made in the 1930s are generally sought after. It's the last decade of true brick building + wood windowframes, there are often stained glass details. They are also from an era with little to no social housing (Since our government was rightwing "austerity" during the great depression... until like 1937), so almost all the houses are decent sized. So those 1930 neighbourhoods are almost always "good neighbourhoods" (since you need 2x median income to afford a house anywhere near it). And the planted tons of Oak trees during construction which certainly looks nice 90 years later.
Unfortunately, as we are now transitioning into heavy isolation as part of environmental policy (and geo-politics, as the gas fields are drying up and we don't want to become an importer from Russia). And those houses suck to isolate. But I don't think anyone is going to be willing to tear them down.
In NL, houses made in the 1930s are generally sought after. It's the last decade of true brick building + wood windowframes, there are often stained glass details. They are also from an era with little to no social housing (Since our government was rightwing "austerity" during the great depression... until like 1937), so almost all the houses are decent sized. So those 1930 neighbourhoods are almost always "good neighbourhoods" (since you need 2x median income to afford a house anywhere near it). And the planted tons of Oak trees during construction which certainly looks nice 90 years later.
Unfortunately, as we are now transitioning into heavy isolation as part of environmental policy (and geo-politics, as the gas fields are drying up and we don't want to become an importer from Russia). And those houses suck to isolate. But I don't think anyone is going to be willing to tear them down.
NL does the same. If you go the pharmacy, there is a €7 "explanation fee" on every drug.
This sucks a lot for people with really cheap medicine that they take daily (Like people on the cheapest statines)
I saw a bill at work, where there was €13 of medicine and €42 to explain it.... to a person who had been taking them for a decade.
It's a cornerstone of the funding structure, but it leans the hardest on people who can afford it the least.....
It's all round a bad idea
In an NHS context they aren't even recovering a material amount of money, and because it's so regressive there are a raft of exemptions and prepayment schemes that are likely as complex to administer as the prescriptions themselves
Every so often the English trusts hit upon a scheme like this which will let them claw back some cash from patients to try to address some funding pressure (parking charges at hospitals, premium TV channels in wards, premium food, taking money to grant salespeople from associated commercial services access to patients, etc) and it's always a terrible idea
In the areas which have boards rather than trusts (Scotland, Wales, NI) this kind of thing is generally discouraged to prohibited
A hockey team wanted breakfast put out for them an hour early and when we agreed to cold breakfast only a half hour early they complained about the waffle maker not being on. Not a chance people, don't push your luck.
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NHS paracetamol is super expensive too. They end up paying some absurd amount (I'm sure I remember £7 as the figure), just due to the various overheads attached to dispensing medication and tracking it all. For reference the public can buy pills for less than 2p each.
There was a big thing in the news about it a few years back because people were getting upset that doctors weren't readily prescribing it but instead recommending it be taken.
It does point to a strange structural inefficiency somewhere
The £7 ish (now £9) the prescription charge, which only exists in England
It's a flat fee paid by anyone recieving prescription medication and the cost was arrived at by working out all the costs due to prescribing that are not the cost of the medication itself (for everything from paracetamol to ultra niche oncology drugs) and dividing by the number of prescriptions issued. Them reducing it a bit because it seemed bigger than people would accept.
Functionally it's an additional tax that you pay if you get sick in England, which is the logic that lead to it being abolished elsewhere, since creeping monetisation is generally seem to be at odds with the "free at the point of use" mantra.
In practice it just led to the weird situation you describe, where it isn't worth prescribing anything that costs less than the charge and is otherwise available OTC.
No, I'm talking about the internal costs. Prescription costs are a separate thing
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Oh geez a coworkers daughter is going to immigrate to the US from Canada to be with her fiancee they seem to not understand you just cant just go hey I'm moving into this country
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Good evemorning chat
My bedside lamp had a frayed cord going into the switch so I took the cord and switch apart and rewired it all while following knitdan’s first and only rule of electricity*
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do not under any circumstances electrocute yourself
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
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The real mystery guest is the friends we made along the way
No wait
It’s some drunk kid
And he’s shit himself
Nah it’s always some C-list celebrity because if their name had any real draw they’d use it instead of calling them a mystery guest
Edit: so my guess is it’s Elizabeth Berkley
Lol
I wonder what she’s doing these days. Those SBTB kids had a hell of post-series career.
- Elizabeth Berkeley: did softcore porn, faded into obscurity
- Dustin Diamond: made pornos no one wanted to watch, went to jail
- Lark Voorhees: Lost her gotdam mind
- Mario Lopez: homophobe and professional dollar-store Ryan Seacrest
- Tiffany Theissen: Enjoying obscurity with Lizzy Berx, maybe they do brunch with Annabeth Gish
- Mark-Paul Gosselar: Intermittent feature guest on cop shows, frequently mistaken for Ricky Schroeder and James Van Der Beek and doesn’t correct people.
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The £7 ish (now £9) the prescription charge, which only exists in England
It's a flat fee paid by anyone recieving prescription medication and the cost was arrived at by working out all the costs due to prescribing that are not the cost of the medication itself (for everything from paracetamol to ultra niche oncology drugs) and dividing by the number of prescriptions issued. Them reducing it a bit because it seemed bigger than people would accept.
Functionally it's an additional tax that you pay if you get sick in England, which is the logic that lead to it being abolished elsewhere, since creeping monetisation is generally seem to be at odds with the "free at the point of use" mantra.
In practice it just led to the weird situation you describe, where it isn't worth prescribing anything that costs less than the charge and is otherwise available OTC.
But the steak juices mixing with the sauteed mushrooms is like the entire point of me putting the mushrooms on the grill in the first place.
Sure but only the murder the person who designed the original facade who should have been in the Hague for decades at this point.
I love Victorian aesthetics but that's... not a great example of it.
Yup in my experience "ton of charm" translates into "Oh hey this is charming->fast forward six months->Oh hey this is actually super fucking annoying and oh my god why would anyone build it this way" and then cut to either months if not years of renovations or just flat out selling the house.
Victorians are all-wood, from floor to exterior, built before many homes even had electricity
Just . . no
Never not meaning fuckin’
And in many cases the electricity they have was installed when safety standards were, um, lets go with lax. Sure virtually non-existent is more accurate but lax sounds nicer.
Or put in by people years after the house was built, exposed cabling everywhere.
I’m sorry. I’m not a huge fan of Victorians. They’re twee rat mazes made of kindling, asbestos, and lead paint.
The leaving forever meme has naturally come to its conclusion as I successfully did leave forever and never once failed to stay away.
This sucks a lot for people with really cheap medicine that they take daily (Like people on the cheapest statines)
I saw a bill at work, where there was €13 of medicine and €42 to explain it.... to a person who had been taking them for a decade.
It's a cornerstone of the funding structure, but it leans the hardest on people who can afford it the least.....
https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/d7ff40/wcgw_hitting_a_jump_at_60mph_with_a_ford_raptor/
Unfortunately, as we are now transitioning into heavy isolation as part of environmental policy (and geo-politics, as the gas fields are drying up and we don't want to become an importer from Russia). And those houses suck to isolate. But I don't think anyone is going to be willing to tear them down.
You mean insulation?
It's all round a bad idea
In an NHS context they aren't even recovering a material amount of money, and because it's so regressive there are a raft of exemptions and prepayment schemes that are likely as complex to administer as the prescriptions themselves
Every so often the English trusts hit upon a scheme like this which will let them claw back some cash from patients to try to address some funding pressure (parking charges at hospitals, premium TV channels in wards, premium food, taking money to grant salespeople from associated commercial services access to patients, etc) and it's always a terrible idea
In the areas which have boards rather than trusts (Scotland, Wales, NI) this kind of thing is generally discouraged to prohibited
No, I'm talking about the internal costs. Prescription costs are a separate thing
Don’t try to jump a road vehicle
My bedside lamp had a frayed cord going into the switch so I took the cord and switch apart and rewired it all while following knitdan’s first and only rule of electricity*
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Also my head has been in a weird place for the last week, definitely because of surgery-related anxiety
this is real bad
Ask them
Waiting for my super to show up too busy to deal with it right now
Do you get hobos breaking into your place? We occasionally do here, on the admit floors. They’ll just come in and hop into a bed like no big deal
“It’s free real estate!”
Ooooh
Mystery guest
No
nothing like that We have an idea who it is but we cant be sure.
No wait
It’s some drunk kid
And he’s shit himself
Nah it’s always some C-list celebrity because if their name had any real draw they’d use it instead of calling them a mystery guest
Edit: so my guess is it’s Elizabeth Berkley
Can you adopt me
Lol
I wonder what she’s doing these days. Those SBTB kids had a hell of post-series career.
- Elizabeth Berkeley: did softcore porn, faded into obscurity
- Dustin Diamond: made pornos no one wanted to watch, went to jail
- Lark Voorhees: Lost her gotdam mind
- Mario Lopez: homophobe and professional dollar-store Ryan Seacrest
- Tiffany Theissen: Enjoying obscurity with Lizzy Berx, maybe they do brunch with Annabeth Gish
- Mark-Paul Gosselar: Intermittent feature guest on cop shows, frequently mistaken for Ricky Schroeder and James Van Der Beek and doesn’t correct people.
we're just calling any new construction a mcmansion now aren't we