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There is a problem of incentives when it comes to galvanising people to protest some infringement of their liberty. Usually the amount the special interest stands to gain is massively larger than the amount any one individual stands to lose. For instance, the farming union might stand to lose tens of millions of pounds in subsidies if [...]
N.B. I am not Davy
From Leg-iron, the telegraph reports that the demand for NHS services is too high:
The “worried well” are taking up too much of GPs’ time complaining of small problems such as coughs and colds which they should be treating at home, it was argued.
Minor treatable complaints cost the NHS £2 billion a [...]
N.B. I am not Davy
It is often said that the USA provides a good example of what a free market in healthcare looks like, but this is simply false. The healthcare industry of the United States is plagued with massive government regulation.
Rather than moving to single-payer healthcare, like our own failing NHS, Shane Killian discusses ways to [...]
Constantly Furious, on Brown’s attitude to the NHS:
It’s one of his favourite political footballs: Broon loves to spin that those eeevil Tories would close it down the second they got into power, causing thousands to die in the streets, leaving the rich to step over their raddled corpses, whereas under his and Labour’s tender care, it [...]
Apparently the mentally ill are discovering the site! In response to an article I wrote where I discussed how it’s a bad thing that 400 people died needlessly in one Staffordshire NHS hospital, Andy Bate chimed in:
clearly the dickheads who set up this site either are
1. clinically stupid
2. Work for a private health insurance company [...]
When people talk about the NHS being “the pride of Britain”, “Flawed but necessary” or anything in between, it’s rare to hear about the random unintended consequences of the institution and how they weigh those against the supposed benefits.
All government programs inevitably come with a host of unintended consequences that the politicians don’t talk about when [...]
The BBC on the Staffordshire NHS inquiry:
Hospital patients were left “sobbing and humiliated” by uncaring staff, an investigation into one of the worst NHS scandals in history has found.
The independent inquiry claimed the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust had become driven by targets and cost-cutting.
The report – the latest in a long line of critical reviews [...]
A user by the name of “bma” left the following comment on the NHS must be completely abolished article, the quote at the beginning is mine from that original page:
“Poor people are forced to use the NHS because they cannot opt out of paying taxes, therefore they find it almost impossible to go private because [...]
I just typed “NHS” into Google news and had to laugh at the complete clusterfuck the organisation is. These are all stories on the front page and they were all added in the last 12 hours:
Healthy pay packets of £100000 a year not uncommon in the NHS
NHS faces ‘potentially serious problems’ from wrong prescriptions on the NHS
NHS [...]
Here’s another letter cross posted from this article please leave comments at that page if you have something to add.
Elad writes on 11/12/2009
As an employer with the NHS for over 3 years i think i can tell you a few truths about why the system is crap! Lets be honest its not all the nhs [...]
