Re: Just so you know


"Jpinny" <jpinny@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:YDXlf.5720$L7.630@xxxxxxxxxxx
> The Traveller wrote:
>
> >
> > You can't get owt fer the early stage of anything here, not that it
doesn't
> > exist. The Government are extremely mingy concerning everything and it
> > rubs off on their people. Gees, I wanna come home.
> >
> > If you don't have a fever your not ill.
> > Edith.
> >
> >
> Mr P is signing up for a super new benefit at work, starting in the New
> Year, which will pay us $70 each for going for any one particular cancer
> screening test per year - and for attending follow-up appointments after
> injury! We already have 100% insurance cover for all the usual tests but
> this new insurance actually gives you a bonus cash incentive, as a
> reward for getting pricked, prodded and squished. It's linked to a new
> cancer insurance which is also available, but you mustn't be diagnosed
> with any malignancy in the first 30 days of the policy - so all my
> routine and non-routine screenings are being bumped back to February,
> now! Fingers crossed.
>
> This is truly the profit motive in action!
>
> Jp
>
I received a bill in the post for £20, one week ago, saying I could take a
breast cancer 'test' in Tønsberg, along with all the other women same age as
myself in Horten. I threw it in the bin. Nice invitation just before
Christmas, I must say. £20s out of pocket + bus fairs etc and perhaps some
blu88y bad news too. Who wants it.

Edith.


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