tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post8309130925560597040..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: NHS - Nothing left to treat.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-11094040198647379422011-02-16T05:23:49.132+00:002011-02-16T05:23:49.132+00:00makes you proud, Delcretin, Anon, - I now avoid al...makes you proud, Delcretin, Anon, - I now avoid all contact with anyone on the NHS because I know they don't treat illnesses any more.<br /><br />I see proud declarations of 'Smoke-free' outside hospitals I know are riddled with MRSA, C. difficile and more hospital acquired infections than the MSM have ever heard of.<br /><br />They don't want to treat me bnecause I smoke? Good. The idea of being put into one of those plague pits is terrifying. I'll take my chances with the possible effects of smoking against the definite dead-next-week effect of MRSA.<br /><br />Let the Righteous have it all. Including the diseases.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-46502707444250462612011-02-16T05:17:45.972+00:002011-02-16T05:17:45.972+00:00PJH - I have seeds and yeast. For the moment I kno...PJH - I have seeds and yeast. For the moment I know a man with a van. Soon I won't need any external sources of tobacco or booze.<br /><br />Except malt whiskies. I am not waiting ten years! But they can be brought back by many overseas travellers who don't drink.<br /><br />No, we won't get the duty back and we will get nothing but abuse for pauying it. So I won't.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-25429909458258329632011-02-16T05:14:14.587+00:002011-02-16T05:14:14.587+00:00Kitler - reminds me of Bono on stage, clapping his...Kitler - reminds me of Bono on stage, clapping his hands every three seconds and saying 'Every time I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa'.<br /><br />Some brilliant wit piped up 'Well stop clapping then'.<br /><br />Really took the edge of that particular guilt-fest.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-77280128466993780712011-02-16T05:12:27.286+00:002011-02-16T05:12:27.286+00:00Banned - drinking has been on the decline for a lo...Banned - drinking has been on the decline for a long time. The problem is not drinkers, but violent drunks. <br /><br />If the courts stop accepting 'I were smashed, innit' as an excuse and punished the actual crime, the problem would go away.<br /><br />Sure, there'd still be the harmless drunks, but they aren't damaging anyone but themselves.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-68295362355342693232011-02-16T01:09:16.741+00:002011-02-16T01:09:16.741+00:00I’ve always been a great supporter of the NHS, for...I’ve always been a great supporter of the NHS, for all its faults, but you’ve put the case for its abandonment so well that I can’t help but sadly agree, if things keep on going the way they look like they are. <br /><br />The only alternative that I can see (and it would take a braver politician to suggest it than any of the lot we currently have) is to take the NHS <i>right back to its roots</i>. Grab it by the neck like the spoiled brat it has now become, give it a good shake, and allow it to do one thing, and one thing only – to treat people when they are ill or injured. Sling out all the hangers-on and their associated functions – the tattoo removal services, cosmetic and plastic surgery except when associated with an illness or an accident, infertility treatment, NHS quit smoking helplines and support groups, alcohol advisers, obesity police, counsellors, travel vaccinations, MOT-style healthchecks, screening services – the list is endless. If people want these things when they’re not actually ill, they can pay for them. And along with disposing of all these expensive add-on functions, a whole host of administrators, managers, pen-pushers, and record-keepers would go, too. Imagine the huge savings they’d make!<br /><br />Pretty quickly, the insurance industry would surely cotton on to the fact that there would be a big market for insurance policies for “non-NHS-treatable” services and no doubt some canny company would develop one, which would almost certainly be considerably cheaper than the current “catch all” policies which many people can’t afford or can’t take advantage of because they have a “pre-existing” condition.<br /><br />Just some thoughts .....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-71024651749880102522011-02-15T20:42:12.610+00:002011-02-15T20:42:12.610+00:00My mother spent her last 5 months in the care of t...My mother spent her last 5 months in the care of the NHS. I witnessed her decline day by day. Bitter doesn't even start to describe how I feel. Each night I visited, the first thing she wanted, nay begged for was a drink of water. Food served at lunchtime still on the tray at 7 in the evening. Isolation due to hospital aquired infections, filthy toilets and washing areas, disrespect for privacy, general indifference around the staff who didn't give a damn and the smell of fear around the staff who would have liked to be free to care were it not for regulation, pc, health and safety, threat of litigation etc,. Hair uncombed and bedraggled. Glasses out of reach. Teeth untreated. Nightdress unwashed. I could go on. And all this under a Labour mind you a Labour, government. Bitter? I am still *@#!ing furious after all these years and knowing what I know would sooner create my own squalor in the comfort of my own home in which to die than auction my fortunes to strangers. Am I allowed to do that? If not, tough!delcretinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06356835557581228823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-4460383717765739672011-02-15T18:19:47.512+00:002011-02-15T18:19:47.512+00:00When real figures, i.e sales figures are looked at...When real figures, i.e sales figures are looked at, rather than the hysterical rantings of the likes of Alcohol Concern, you find that Britons are actually drinking less, not more.<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12397254<br /><br />So either the assertion that people being treated for alcohol misuse has doubled since 2002 as stated by Alcohol Concern, is a flat out lie, or the Tippler's equivilent of "Who ate all the Pies?"RABnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-73058630072932421132011-02-15T14:19:40.639+00:002011-02-15T14:19:40.639+00:00It's getting to a pont where the ridiculous pa...It's getting to a pont where the ridiculous paradox of Catch 22 is going to be the norm. i.e. The only way to get out of flying suicidal missions is if you're crazy, but if you want to get out of flying suicidal missions then you obviously aren't crazy.<br /><br />So the NHS is there to treat the ill and injured, but the NHS won't treat the ill and injured because it costs money to treat them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-74041464418256757152011-02-15T10:46:58.614+00:002011-02-15T10:46:58.614+00:00"[The NHS] has admitted that it cannot cope w...<i>"[The NHS] has admitted that it cannot cope with the three primary causes of all illness - fat, smoke and booze - therefore it is of no value at all."</i><br /><br />Genius.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-19305409522619452192011-02-15T10:21:57.600+00:002011-02-15T10:21:57.600+00:00"If you want smokers, drinkers and chubbies t..."<i>If you want smokers, drinkers and chubbies to be excluded from the NHS, the ECHR will waste no time in allowing those people to exclude themselves from National Insurance payments. Oh, but the swivel-eyed demand we pay NI, but also that we don't make use of the service it allegedly pays for. They regard that as 'fair'.</i>"<br /><br /><br />Erm - what about all that <b>extra</b> tax that's placed on cigarettes and booze - don't we get that back as well?<br /><br />(Sadly there doesn't appear to be an equivalent on food - since some of it doesn't even attract VAT.)<br /><br />And what about the state pension we won't be claiming because we're "dying earlier." I want that claimed back too!PJHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11331948749785269728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-72328100482562443322011-02-15T10:10:15.092+00:002011-02-15T10:10:15.092+00:00Yes there's something seriously wrong with som...Yes there's something seriously wrong with some NHS procedures. My relative was in hospital with terminal cancer and a broken arm.<br />He struggled to do his crossword as his finger nails were too long. I asked a nurse if they could be cut and she said no, because of 'health and safety'. I took clippers on my next visit and was planning to cut his nails on the sly but he was sadly dead. 50 years he paid into the system and about a week of care he got. Spent staring at the ceiling . Bored and dying. Scary.makes you proudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-73223725358467157732011-02-15T08:51:22.372+00:002011-02-15T08:51:22.372+00:00They probably get their science from the people on...They probably get their science from the people on the TV ads who claim a child dies every 3 seconds in Africa. A quick check on my calculator tells me that means over a hundred million kids die there every decade. <br /><br />I have no idea if this is true or not but I do know that if resources are scarce in Africa then increasing its population by 100 million every decade is hardly going to help. It just means a 100 million more starving breeders breeders for the west to feed.<br /><br />Lucky for them foreign aid has been ringfenced I suppose.kitlernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-86052716682335277952011-02-15T03:45:24.718+00:002011-02-15T03:45:24.718+00:00The whole anti-drinking bollox is predicated on (f...The whole anti-drinking bollox is predicated on (from your link)<br /><br />"<i>A quarter of British adults drink more than the recommended daily limit of two units for a women, three for men"</i>.<br />ie one pint for a woman or one and a half pints for a man.<br /><br /> To call that 'binge-drinking' is self evidently absurd and makes a mockery of their entire argument just as looking out of the window gives the lie to manmadeglobalwarming.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.com