I WONDER why people today think that the NHS is free when it has never been free. Sometimes under Labour, the prescription has been free but even then pensioners had to pay for dental treatment and specs.
We are brought up to be easy-going, but I feel it has gone too far with the way people are coming here and having too much treatment because they think they have the right, when they should go home to get it.
Zeeta Jackson, Shildon.
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