Remember Steve Ballmer shouting “Developers, developers, developers”? The Brits need someone shouting “Priorities, priorities, priorities.”
Drug addicts told ‘kick habit and win an iPod’
Drug addicts who kick their habit are to be rewarded with iPods, televisions and shopping vouchers on the NHS under controversial guidelines unveiled by the Government’s health service rationing watchdog.
While cancer and Alzheimer’s patients are denied life-prolonging treatments on the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) revealed a plan to offer junkies prizes for staying clean.
NICE, which three months ago ruled Alzheimer’s drugs costing just £2.50 a day too expensive to provide on the NHS, believes such incentives would be cost effective.
Is it really an incentive to have prizes of iPods and TVs when the junkies have probably stolen quite a few already?
Nice to see all my tax £s being spent this way…. hmmmm….
Ahhhhhhhhhh….the joys of Nationalized Health care in the hands of a left goverment.
Sorry folks, all you people screaming for national health care, who yell, **look at Canada, look at Germany, look at Britain**….well, when you actually LOOK at them, this is what you see, and not on an isolated basis, but every day of the year. Sure, some of the northern European countries and maybe the Netherlands and Belgium have decent systems, but you have to remember they are dealing with whole populations barely larger than the metropolitian L.A. area.
My next concern is this…….for all you left wing conspirousy folks……do you TRUST the goverment of this country to competantly run a national health care system? Think about your Grandmother and Medicare.
#2, joshua.
The short answer is, …
yup.
My current health insurance doesn’t cover addictions to illegal drugs. It restricts mental health care to 8 weeks of out patient care. To top it off, there is a $200,000 top. My 13 yr old niece has already passed the $150,000 mark; she has spina bifida.
True, most National Health plans do have flaws. Yet every one of them is better then what almost every American has. Only politicians qualify for better plans. So point out the problems with Britain’s National Health. At least they don’t have 10 million people uninsured.
#2 – do you TRUST the goverment of this country to competantly run a national health care system? Think about your Grandmother and Medicare.
Yes. Medicare’s operational costs accounts for 2% of its total budget while the operational cost of the average HMO is somewhere around 20%.
#3 At least they don’t have 10 million people uninsured.
I didn’t think we did either. I thought we had 46 million. Maybe someone vaguely less lazy than myself will correct us both 🙂
Wow – clean up for awhile, get an iPod, sell it and buy more dope! Wonder how many times they’ll let an addict repeat the cycle.
That’s not entirely a wiseass remark, either – most addicts clean themselves up from time to time when the costs of their addiction, to health or finance, gets too high to bear. Most addicts don’t really WANT to be addicts, after all. But hey, clean ’em up and then give ’em something they can sell – that’s a whole new ticket to the downhill slide.
Wow, that explains the Mac user demographic.
#4, I did a rough proportional estimate that if almost 1/6 of all Americans are uninsured then about the same 1/6 British would also be uninsured. I guesstimated Britain’s population at roughly 65 million.
Of course, ALL British are insured so my point is that the 10 million uninsured do not exist.
My apologies for the confusion.