On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:29 pm, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > It was much worse when they were in power. There own leader called us a > Banana republic.
What makes people uncomfortable about our reliance on wool, wheat & soil (ore)? > Interest rates were close to 20% for housing loans etc. What was the world average at that time? I fixed my first home mortgage at 14?% because the general economy didn't look bright. > But as said, maybe you like that. If you saw more than 1 patient at a > nursing home for example, the previous government punished you by paying > you less and less the more you saw Still happens. For the 100 NH patients I look after, I would be better off staying in the practice . > - Sometimes as little as $5.00 a patient > if you saw seven or more patients at a nursing home. And you claim things > can't get worse ? Things could get worse under Labour for doctors. > > When the current government came to power, things got much better. Hold on: very slowly, over a decade and a half, and most of that just before the last general erection where both major parties were falling over each other to give gps money. I was told by very right-leaning doctors how clever it was (mid-late 90's) not giving us increases year-after-year, as it would cause bulk-billing to collapse. I couldn't understand why we had to suffer so much in the meantime. jh > > Cedric > -- HELEN: Oh, dear! How clumsy of me. It seems like I've done it again. What can I say? MIKE: How about, "Oh Mike, please put your hand up my skirt". _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
