With most of the public sector on strike and demanding massive pay rises, while retaining their final salary pensions .....
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| Beano Xmas 1970 |
.... and with inflation going through the roof, with a lot of people huddling at home in three jumpers and under a pile of blankets .... it may not be the happiest of Christmases we have had in the UK, but hey, its another year gone by, and surely this will all pass some time.
Free dental treatment on the National Health Service (NHS) treatment ended in 1951, just three years after the NHS was formed, because it was deemed unaffordable.
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| NHS Dentistry |
The vast majority of us opted for the subsidised system (where we paid for some of the costs) as 'private' treatment was too expensive. But over the decades an estimated one in seven adults moved over to private treatment (I'm not sure why ... presumably there are good reasons) ...
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| A Million Pounds |
