Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Why Britain Has Misinterpreted The Role Of The NHS

On Monday during a speech to the King’s Fund health think-tank, the Conservatives’ Leader David Cameron proposed to transfer the day-to-day administration of the National Health Service from government ministers to an independent board. While Cameron is right to push for the liberation of the NHS from the traditional obsessive socialist dogma of rigid targets and excessive financial waste and bureaucracy, the National Health Service’s problems go well beyond political mismanagement. These problems are cultural engrained on the British psyche and are concerned with the entire purpose of the NHS itself.
When Clement Atlee’s first Labour government introduced the NHS during 1948, it not only intended to provide instant healthcare to the less fortunate members of society who were unable to afford private medical provision, it also sought to provide a health service so good that the better off would prefer the NHS over the private sector alternatives. Unfortunately, as the history of the NHS has consistently shown; this not only impossible, but also immoral as Sir Keith Joseph, Baroness Thatcher and Nicholas Ridley all realised. The primary functions of the NHS are to provide healthcare for those who cannot afford it privately and attend to medical emergencies at the taxpayers’ expense. The NHS should not subsidise the treatment of the better off whom whether they realise or not are consuming resources that are intended for the less fortunate out of a selfish desire for their own convenience over those who need it more. Not only that, but the NHS should not purchase and subsidise medical nonessentials such as Viagra tablets. If impotent men what an erection, they should pay for it out of their own expense!
If the NHS is to provide any real long-term improvement in health provision, then the nation must accept that the NHS cannot compete with the services provided by the private equivalents and as such, resources need to be better prioritised. Those who can afford private provision should be compelled out of moral obligation to the less fortunate to receive private treatment so long as it is not subsidised by the taxpayer and state.

8 comments:

Sir-C4' said...

I did not know you were in Bristol Stalin?

Get a life fool because YOU are the racist, YOU are empty and YOU are the pervert!

This is not The Crow Stalin, this is real life and the reality is that you should not hunt what you cannot kill!

Sir-C4' said...

The centre ground is morass, only Thatcherism works.

Besides you are a fine to talk about neutrality considering you are racist against Jews and your hero is Iosef Koba Stalin!

Sir-C4' said...

Give it up Helen, no one is buying your tripe! Anyone who find jokes about the gas chambers funny has a very sick mind.

I find your little threats so amusing, you still have not figured it out yet. I can not be bought, bribed, bullied, brainwashed, frightened or imtimidated. I on the other hand have a stare that can burn holes in brick walls.

I fear no evil!

Sir-C4' said...

I have copied all of this and have sent it to your MP.

And who is my MP? Where do I live? You do not know the first thing about me and you never will.

You're a nutcase!

Sir-C4' said...

Actually, I doubt Alan Williams will care what an uppity Tory gets up to behind closed doors, but local Conservative councillor Alun Cairns and assembly member Huw Rees might be a little more embarrassed on behalf of their party's younger member?

Wrong area Helen, as I have moved. Also Mr. Cains is a AM, not a local councillor and I doubt the Swansea West Conservative Association will pay any attention to an autocratic, authoritarian, racist bully such as youself. I am quite popular within the local association and even among the ranks of Tory AMs and MPs. You're standards are slipping Helen!

Here are two questions for you Stalin. What proof do you have that I am a racist? Also, do you actually have anything constructive to contribute to this entry on the NHS? If you do not, then I suggest that you post your deranged rants on a more suitable topic or better still, keep your evil opinions to yourself.

Sir-C4' said...

I'm as fit as a fiddle!

Sir-C4' said...

If I hate the Jews, then why am I fan of prowrestler and actor Bill Goldberg? Why would spend money on buying Goldberg-related items if I hated Jews? I support the existence of the State of Israel, I find 'jokes' extremely offensive, I despise David Irving, George Galloway, Mel Gibson and Ken Livingstone for the anti-Jewish stance not to mention that my personal lord and saviour Jesus Christ was a Jew as well.

Sir-C4' said...

Don't be pendantic, I know EXACTLY who you are and what you have done over the years. You're the one who is ill!