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You aren’t telling us how it was offered. Openly in front of multiple people, discretely, etc.
Discretely, then my wife tried, then my mom's wife tried and then my wife's cousin who is an immigration cop tried. I've lived here for 12 years, I know how it works.
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The NHS doesn't have a problem with too few patients anywhere. Just look at the chaos of the recently opened dentists that saw massive queues down the street, where police had to intervene to control the crowds. The reason: the dentist was new and accepting NHS patients. A system that can't even provide dental slots without needing police to break up fights is a catastrophically failed system and it is a huge problem…
It is a problem with funding when you need to break it down into smaller pieces because some very expensive things that are used by less patients now do not have support of budget for a larger area, and become an extra drain on the administrative region - because you still need to maintain neurosurgery units etc. Suddenly there's less money for smaller, cheaper things. And what is the alternative? For-profit systems?
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I tried to use a CPAP machine for a while. I honestly could never figure out how I was supposed to breathe with it. At all. It seemed to be physically impossible. I'd try for a while each night, then get frustrated and stop so I could get some sleep. Completely useless to me. Fortunately I was able to just return it, but if I hadn't been able to, why should that mean insurance wouldn't cover it? I was prescribed this…
CPAP makes breathing harder than normal. It's antiquated technology, superseded by something called bilevel-CPAP (BiPAP) which has the quality that it makes breathing actually _easier_. It's slightly more expensive than plain CPAP so insurance and doctors withhold it from the patients and try to keep it a secret.