Comments on: Imagine if the government were to make the same promise https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/06/imagine-if-the-government-made-the-same-promise/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:58:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ettore Bono https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/06/imagine-if-the-government-made-the-same-promise/#comment-27727 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:58:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2799#comment-27727 I’m not 100% sure about this, but I think it is the EU (commission or courts) that has ruled that a patient who is made to wait too long for treatement has the right to get it done privatly and then charge the state.

I know there were cases in the UK where patients went abroad to have ops done pivately and then charfe the NHS.

Which I imagine would cost a lot more than having it done at a local private facility.

[Daphne – You’re a little bit confused.]

]]> By: John https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/06/imagine-if-the-government-made-the-same-promise/#comment-27726 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:04:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2799#comment-27726 I visit hospitals frequently. I saw George Abela humbly queuing together with Mrs Abela at the day ward of Mater Dei before he was nominated president and also happened to see MLP VIPs at Saint James Hospital waiting on the sofas.

I also see MLP medical specialists serving in all the three hospitals.

Toni and friends wouldn’t care less who foots their private health care bill.

[Daphne – As long as it’s not them….]

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