Letters - 13 May 2011
From the cuts to the bench backs
The coalition, the cuts and the cost
Like Tom Jackson (15 April), I was born before 1939 and remember the days before the welfare state. Four times a year I used to enjoy sticking penny stamps onto hundreds of brown envelopes, bills that my parents, who were general practitioners, sent out to their patients. They would calculate just how much they could get away with charging those they considered well-to-do, to offset those who could not, or would not, pay.
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