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Annual Check-up

  • 21-06-2006 9:11am
    #1
    Just The One
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭


    Do you go for an annual check-up/medical. Where do you go? How much does it cost?


    Should the Government subsidise check-ups


Comments

  • #2
    thejuggler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    I don't go but my doctor has a healthcheck which basically includes a visit to have an examination and have blood samples etc taken. These are then sent away for testing and you get a follow up visit. So not bad value really - must go and get it done one of these days.


  • #3
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Yeah, I'd like for there to be government-subsidised full-body check-ups (lots of hyphens there!) once a year or once every 5 years, maybe. Unfortunately it'd cost a mint, take up too much time, and there'd be nowhere to actually carry out the procedures :rolleyes:

    Still, one can dream...


  • #4
    Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Sauce


    Our health system is already suffering from overcrowding. As good an idea as it is, government subsidised checkups would just make the problem worse.


  • #5
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    The Govt won't subsidise health-checks because they don't want you to live long enough to collect a pension. They just want you to last long enough to amass enough wealth to collect an inheritance tax from. Hence the appalling health service.

    Do you think I overdid my cynicism pills today?


  • #6
    Vulpiner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭Vulpiner


    Don't like hospitals or doctors. The Vets are much cheaper. Just got Wormed this morning. Or is that RATed? :p


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  • #7
    bonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    Just The One wrote:
    Should the Government subsidise check-ups

    No.

    The government should sort out health-care in general, and issues like this should be factored into it.

    Under the system here, I must have health-insurance. If I can't afford it (i.e. I'm on social welfare) then the insurance will be partially/fully subsidised.

    Something like this check-up is then considered as a medical expense. I pay the first X hundred of my costs per year. If my check-up falls into that, then I pay for it. If it doesn't, then I don't.

    Subsidisations only make sense as part of a well-conceived overall policy.

    jc


  • #8
    nesf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    bonkey wrote:
    Something like this check-up is then considered as a medical expense. I pay the first X hundred of my costs per year. If my check-up falls into that, then I pay for it. If it doesn't, then I don't.

    We have that to an extent here between the DPS (which is a godsend for all the people stuck on prescription meds in the long term and preventing spiking of medical costs for families) and that you can claim back as a tax credit any medical expenses (any GP/hostpital stuff, dental stuff and prescription meds not covered already by insurance or the DPS) beyond the first €125 for an individual or €250 for a group at their highest rate of tax.

    So subsidising is here in this country, it's just that people don't apply for it. (The medical insurance part would be a nice to have too though, but we lack that)


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