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JOKE- 'free' gp card for under 5's

bigalee · 2013-10-15 20:16:04

GTREAT spin today re the free gp visits for the under 5's. at first glance this seems like a real giveaway to parents......The down side of this is that people are forgetting that the way they are paying for this is that they have now clawed money off the mother for what is often the most expensive and indeed difficult…

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15-10-2013 9:16pm

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bigalee

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GTREAT spin today re the free gp visits for the under 5's. at first glance this seems like a real giveaway to parents......The down side of this is that people are forgetting that the way they are paying for this is that they have now clawed money off the mother for what is often the most expensive and indeed difficult stage of a young childs life ie the first 6 months.. namely the time the maternity benefit is paid for.. they taxed it last year which costs most families 2457 euros in extra taxes and now they have reduced it by 30 euros.. which is an additional 780 per child born... "2457 & 780 is 3237 euros" 3237 PER CHILD thats 64 visits to a gp in the first 5 years of life each child would need to make to make up for what the government took off each family per child born..

sounds to me like the government will still make a tidy profit on each and every little baby born

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