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".
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