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About Contact Links Caveat The DR Manifesto...Manifesto I'm not standing for office. I'd be a shite politician, partly because I'm unpleasantly honest and partly because I hate wearing suits... If I wasn't, this is what I'd be campaigning on... (26 Feb 2007) 'Please let my Mother live!'...Environment There's only one way to ensure our survival as a species - live sustainably. It's easy! Nuclear Idiocy (15 January 2007) Sustainability (16 October 2006) Global Warming (15 October 2006) Housing Shortage (15 October 2006) Cycle Paths (11 October 2006) Tourism (10 October 2006) Main Topics...Make Drugs Legal Prohibition doesn't work, duh! It gives too much money to organised crime... Updated: Letter to the Telegraph 'Alcohol and Tobacco are the gateway drugs - if there is such a thing...' (Upd: 11 Mar 2006) Errant Fathers How can fathers be expected to 'take responsibility' for their kids when the law always presumes in favour of the mother? I got a reply - and here's my reply to that Welfare and Compensation Culture = No Legal Responsibility (Upd: 11 Mar 2007) A New Political System A solution for: Party Funding, Reform of The House Of Lords, and it incidentally makes the whole voting process far more democratic... (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Principles My principles of government. (Upd: 25 Feb 2007) Road Pricing Tony Blair and the entire Labour Government are cretins... Road pricing has to be the most hare-brained scheme ever - devised by the evil cretinous muppets from hell - the Politicians... (19 Feb 2007) Old People Old folks have no respect in our culture. That is so wrong!... (18 Feb 2007) Poverty How do we define poverty? How do we reduce it? Well, not taxing the poor would help... (18 Feb 2007) Europe The EU is a criminal organisation intent on conquest... (Upd: 30 January 2007) Cash for Honours Why would anyone give money to a political party?.. (16 January 2006) Social Security A fresh approach to the problem of how to provide social security... (15 January 2006) David Cameron David Cameron and the Conservative Party... (12 December 2006) Random Rants Some random musings... (12 November 2006) Prisons If prisoners are 'paying their debt to society' - why is is so damn expensive to keep them? (21 October 2006) Tax Taxes kill businesses and people. (16 October 2006) Free Speech Some peoples brains work overtime trying to figure out how to turn opinions into insults... (14 October 2006) Health Why are tax-payers footing the bill for sex-change operations and IVF? (13 October 2006) Law British law is stupidly complex and inefficient. You'd never design a system like that... (13 October 2006) Education Educators need to aim higher, and politicians need to butt-out. (12 October 2006) Security It was a no-brainer that invading Iraq with Bush would cause more grievances than it solved. When has starting a war ever brought peace? (8 October 2006) |
Health and The National Health Service
13 October 2006 The National Health Service should, of course, be free for everyone. However, it only has limited resources so there must be limits on it's remit. I think the NHS should only provide treatment for diseases. Thinking you were 'born the wrong sex', or not being able to have kids - is not a disease. These things should not be funded on the NHS. Besides, do you have any idea how much it costs to raise a kid? Hell, if they can't afford the IVF, they can't afford kids! If prospective sex-change patients had to earn the money for the operation, drugs, re-alignment counselling etc. Then a) they would be much more useful members of society, and wouldn't spend their whole lives obsessing about their genitalia, and b) would also have the incentive to actually consider whether it's actually worth going under the knife. The NHS budget for 2005/2006 was over £80 billion, most of which was paid for out of general taxation. Only about £18 billion of the £85 billion collected in NI went to the NHS. (Chris King)
There are more managers in the NHS than there are doctors and nursesA typical government organisation then... Massive wastage on high salaries for people who do little that's useful. If we sacked all those leeches, there would probably be enough money to have a really good health service... I'm sure they all think they're useful, discussing 'policy', filling in forms, meeting targets etc. but unless their activity is directly realated to healing people, or recording patient histories - it's irrelevant to the function of the NHS. Doctors used to be hard-worked, and well paid......now they work a standard 9-5 week, and get paid twice as much. Doctors' new contract - again the work of the useless Labour government - means they work less hours for more money. They provide less cover, and no longer have to do call outs. Some doctors (who should probably fuck off and become accountants) are really good at playing the system - and they can earn £250,000 a year... Ten years ago - they'd have been on about £60k. 
Hospital parking should be patient-friendlyIn many hospitals, it's actually impossible to comply with the parking regulations. For example - my local hospital has machines you have to get your ticket from, but it doesn't give change, or take credit cards, so while I'm taking granny to A+E and trying to find some change - I get a parking ticket. If you arrive at night - you can't get any change anywhere. So the only way to comply is to leave again - go to town - and get some cash. Not actually possible if you're with a sick child. When you have to take someone to hospital, the last thing you need is the stress of thinking you're going to be fined because you haven't paid your parking ticket. It is absolutely outrageous that people, who usually only go to hospital at times of great personal stress, have to endure this.
CommentsThis is a sporadically moderated blog. I am not responsible for anything below! Fat PeopleFat people are a drain on everything for example: they cost the nhs more take more space on public transport eat far too much food that could go to people that really need it! get in your way in the street take up more room at the bar extra cost to the tax payer (did you know the average obese person breaks 3 public toilets a year!!) there is no excuse in being fat (only a tiny % is genetic so don\'t let them fool you) get on the treadmill fattys!! being fit is healthy being fat is a disgrace By Neilos Craigos on 12 December 2006 Fat PeopleLess fat people lower taxes By Neilos Craigos on 12 December 2006 Hospital ParkingIt is nice to hear someone complain about this!! A couple of years ago my (now ex) boyfriend had a motorbike accident. I followed the ambulance to the hospital and as he went to A+E i parked up. Not actually realising that morning i would end up in A+E i had no change. I illegally parked, ran down to A+E to check he was ok, and then felt like apsolute shit because i had to scrounge change from someone and go back to put money in the meter. Whilst i am on the subject has anyone else found that hospital parking is a) a million miles away from the hospital and b) always full!! By Jo Hearn on 05 June 2007 To add your own comments, click here to login or register |
