tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post8120302870623490094..comments2024-01-08T13:43:58.220-05:00Comments on Brillig: Insurance MandatesThe Brillig Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886394602447693115noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3001434439078518468.post-68070210188312459112012-04-02T15:45:51.635-04:002012-04-02T15:45:51.635-04:00We have National Insurance in the UK. We tend to f...We have National Insurance in the UK. We tend to forget that it is actually compulsory insurance, because it's been around so long we forget what it's for. It comes directly out of our pay cheques and goes towards the National Health Service (God bless the Labour government that came up with that brilliant idea) and Social Security benefits for if/when we get ill/incapacitated to the point where we can no longer work (been there) or are unemployed for one reason or another (been there too). I hadn't, until now, realised that it is, in fact, compulsory insurance. But that's what it is and we all deal. I'm sure when it first came out it wasn't particularly popular, but as you say, time changes a lot of things.Mhairi Simpsonhttp://www.mhairisimpson.comnoreply@blogger.com