@HeldinEU Addendum: sorry, yes, from a high Street pharmacy, you can ask and go elsewhere if no.
I'd imagine the industry has plenty of antizionist sympathetic pharmacists...
@HeldinEU No, but you can pay a private prescriber for a private prescription and then pay privately fornthe medicines.
If you want to campaign for the NHS procurement process to avoid purchasing form companies from genocidal nations, crack on.
@Robbie_Reasons And attractive cheap trope, but the fact is the NHS has a relatively small cadre of managers for the size and complexity of the organisation.
Shoehorning nurses into management isn't the right skill mix.*
*to be fair, some are excellent.
@Jenny_1884 I'm a big believer in the freedom to make dumb decisions.
Like all drugs, statins may cause adverse effects in a few people, but on balance they have saved a lot of lives and dodged a lot of morbidity.
@AlanFoum@RDH1156@marydejevsky The fund value and pension benefit map to each other by design - the fund value is determined by the benefit, not the contributions.
My point being that the contributions do not give the yield they should. The employee contrib still offers good value, but employer contrib lies.
@AlanFoum@RDH1156@marydejevsky 23.7%/12.5% typical employer/employee contrib.
The benefit we will get out will be *nowhere near* what this contribution should bring, even acknowledging guarantee and inflation link.
@AlanFoum@RDH1156@marydejevsky Generous in absolute terms? Or in terms of the benefit from the sum contributed?
Very different situations.
E.g., From an NHS perspective, the benefit is very poor c.f. the typical 36.2% contribution.
@RobertJenrick Dude, if you want to give me the 23.7% employer and my 12.5% employee pension scheme contributions for me to invest in a SIPP, I'm all ears. Except you don't. You are a populist peddling dogwhistle simple answers to complex problems.