Thursday, January 04, 2007
The Envy Of The World
The Times reports here on the latest NHS "envy of the world" [that no one tries to emulate] crisis.
According to the report, with three months until the financial year end, it has simply "run out of money". As a result, people are being turned away for various treatments etc.
The Times report is strong on detail, but surprisingly short on analysis. Imagine if you will, a private company, taking money off people in return for providing health care; then when people needed care, finding they were being turned away. Do you think the piece would have been short on analysis then?
We'd have had pictures showing directors cars and mansions; can we see some pictures of top NHS administrators' houses and cars? We'd have had comment and opinion telling us that legislation was needed to protect people from such scams. Yet that would have been a voluntary scheme like Farepack, who will protect us from the enforced payment of taxes and national insurance?
We'd have had analysis of why the system was wrong and how it could be changed. Yet for some strange reason, the state is immune from journalistic enquiry, there's no call to change the system, no mention of people having paid in advance for this health care, the state now welching on its promise and no redress available.
That the NHS is seriously up the creek doesn't surprise me, in effect their finances are out by a whole quarter. What is just as important and exceedingly pathetic is how journalists kow-tow to statist systems and never, no matter what happens, consider that perhaps it's time the state did less.
It's time to put our hands up, the NHS project is too big, too vast and costs too much, and this crisis proves that it is doomed to ultimate failure. Let's discuss and implement an exit strategy, before it bankrupts the whole country.
According to the report, with three months until the financial year end, it has simply "run out of money". As a result, people are being turned away for various treatments etc.
The Times report is strong on detail, but surprisingly short on analysis. Imagine if you will, a private company, taking money off people in return for providing health care; then when people needed care, finding they were being turned away. Do you think the piece would have been short on analysis then?
We'd have had pictures showing directors cars and mansions; can we see some pictures of top NHS administrators' houses and cars? We'd have had comment and opinion telling us that legislation was needed to protect people from such scams. Yet that would have been a voluntary scheme like Farepack, who will protect us from the enforced payment of taxes and national insurance?
We'd have had analysis of why the system was wrong and how it could be changed. Yet for some strange reason, the state is immune from journalistic enquiry, there's no call to change the system, no mention of people having paid in advance for this health care, the state now welching on its promise and no redress available.
That the NHS is seriously up the creek doesn't surprise me, in effect their finances are out by a whole quarter. What is just as important and exceedingly pathetic is how journalists kow-tow to statist systems and never, no matter what happens, consider that perhaps it's time the state did less.
It's time to put our hands up, the NHS project is too big, too vast and costs too much, and this crisis proves that it is doomed to ultimate failure. Let's discuss and implement an exit strategy, before it bankrupts the whole country.
