Hospitals and health care are better run privately.
Thu 8:18 pm +01:00, 18 Nov 2021 3
Nothing the Government runs ever works. This is because politicians make useless managers, while the people they employ don’t care enough about what they do to make any effort to do it half decently. The best (or worst) example of the failure of politicians and public employees to run anything effectively is the National Health Service (the NHS).
The NHS is a bureaucratic monster which kills more people than it saves. It is absurdly expensive, wasteful and inefficient. There are more administrators than nurses or beds. The annual cost of NHS management is outrageous and indefensible: it’s double the amount the NHS spends on accident and emergency services, dental services and maternity care. To describe the NHS as an expensive and dangerous disaster is to understate the situation. If you are taken ill the chances are that it will not be the illness that will kill you but the treatment you receive afterwards. We would, as a nation, be better off with nothing. If that sounds overstated, it isn’t.
Some people are saved, of course. Road accident victims and patients requiring emergency surgery may have reason to thank the NHS for their lives. But thousands more are damaged or killed by poor prescribing, inaccurate diagnoses, dangerous vaccines, incompetent nursing, long waiting times and so on.
Anyone who enters an NHS hospital as a patient is putting their life at risk. If cigarette packets deserve to carry a health warning then so do hospitals.
Bevan’s idea for a National Health Service was absurd. Why should the State provide a free health care service? The notion that health care should be `free’ because it is essential is rubbish. It would make more sense to say that food and water should be free.
The idea that hospitals and doctors should be part of some national system is equally nonsensical. Bigger simply means employing more bureaucrats. The existence of a central authority, and the employment of layer upon layer of administration, makes the NHS expensive and inefficient.
Britain’s National Health Service is beyond repair. We need to close it down, fire all the staff (no exceptions) and start again from scratch. The NHS gives everyone an equal right to die at the hands of an uncaring and cumbersome bureaucracy. The NHS spirit died years ago. But no one has yet had the guts to bury the body – which is steadily decomposing. Most people working in the NHS admit that if they (or a member of their family) fell ill they would not want to be treated in the hospital where they work. I will repeat that. Most people working in the NHS admit that if they (or a member of their family) fell ill they would not want to be treated in the hospital where they work. There really isn’t any need to say anything else, is there? It’s a fact that merits screaming rather than comment. (The NHS used to ask staff members if they’d be happy to be treated in their hospital. It was part of their public relations propaganda. After they found that just one in four members of staff would recommend the hospital where they worked to relatives or friends, or be happy to use it themselves, the question was quietly dropped. Would you take your car to a garage knowing that three out of four mechanics who worked there wouldn’t trust the garage with their own car?)
A huge rift has opened up between doctors and patients. Doctors regard patients as the enemy. And patients regard doctors with distrust.
In order to protect themselves from lawsuits doctors order batteries of investigations before daring to consider making a diagnosis. In the bad old days, doctors would make diagnoses based on the patients’ symptoms and their own experience and instincts. Today, diagnoses are made using tests which are far more fallible than instinct and experience.
Endless laws and regulations have separated doctors from patients. Doctors are encouraged (pressured would be a better word) to introduce appointment systems even though both patients and doctors are better off without them.
Our health care system is a failure because it is distorted by regulations, targets and legislation. Anyone who does not regard the NHS a failure should ask themselves why, before the onset of the covid fraud, so many people were flying out to India and Thailand to obtain medical care which, it was widely acknowledged, will be better and safer and much, much cheaper.
Responsibilities have been replaced by rights. And, paradoxically, the result is that in modern England many people, particularly the elderly, are denied treatment. Powerful and organisations campaigning for particular groups of patients can put pressure on the controlling political party and force the Government to provide treatment for their group. But this is done at the expense of other patients. And so politically correct groups (such as those requiring infertility treatment or sex change operations) are treated while the elderly (not at all politically correct) are allowed to go blind and to die when they could be treated quite cheaply.
Things were made much worse by the European Union. It is, for example, partly because of the EU that general practitioners in England no longer provide 24 hour cover for their patients.
Our health care system is a failure because it is distorted by regulations, targets and legislation – some of it originating in London and much of it coming from Brussels. Replacing the NHS with a system of private medical care would employ far fewer bureaucrats but it would be infinitely fairer and better and considerably cheaper.
Don’t believe me? Look at the figures.
We spend over £120 billion a year on the NHS.
There are more than 60,000,000 people in the UK.
Divide 60,000,000 into £120 billion.
And you have £2,000 per head.
I could buy damned good private health cover for £2,000 year. And so could you. And the service would be better and safer.
No political party would ever dare suggest closing the NHS and replacing it with a private health care system. But that’s what we need to do.
The last two years has proved conclusively that the NHS is no longer fit for purpose.
Taken from `Bloodless Revolution’ by Vernon Coleman – available as a paperback and an eBook on Amazon.
Copyright Vernon Coleman November 2021
https://www.vernoncoleman.com/main.htm
I have listened to many a well deserved rant from Doctor Coleman and agreed whole heartedly with what he has been saying. Unfortunately it seems you can take the doctor out of the practice but not the practice out of the doctor. The reason the NHS was set up was because waste amounts of people could not afford to pay for treatment.
The deaths in the NHS have nothing to do with ineptitude but everything to do with murder. This thinning out of the ‘creditors’ with the use of ‘medication’ and it has been going on for years but with the advent of the gift that keeps on giving, the fictitious virus, it has become open warfare on the useless eaters.
The doctor on the ward applies a medication ‘as and when needed’ to the patients allowed list, oooohhh let’s say morphine and then it is open season for any nurse to offer the patient morphine. If they decide you may die, blanket DNR anyone? and any TWO of the following can be ticked then they can and will kill you. How many of these four things do you think you could tick if you gave someone morphine or midazolam?
The patient is bed bound
Semi-comatose
Only able to take sips of water
No longer able to take tablets
Just look up the primary causes of ‘geriatric death’ in hospital and then look up the side effects for the drugs given.
Have you been in a nhs hospital recently visiting a seriously ill patient? What you say is true, but the same can be said for Dr Coleman. My experience visiting daily for six months was awful- next to impossible to speak to specialists who run away after less than a minute, I managed it twice! They treat you like an ignorant fool and you have to watch your loved one suffer inappropriate treatment because they dont listen to you’re personal knowledge of the patient. I could go on for hours but I assure you the nhs is sicker than any of it’s patients. It sounds like a good idea but it doesn’t work, like socialism, the reality is the opposite of the ideals it promises.
‘Have you been in a nhs hospital recently visiting a seriously ill patient?’
They kept my mother hostage for 17 weeks, starving her, dehydrating her. A junior doctor tried to tell me not giving my mother food or water would not necessarily mean she would die. They gave her strong laxatives until she was dehydrated through constant diarrhoea. They sedated her because she kept begging to come home, even though we said no morphine or midazolam. They refused us entry under threat of violence from ‘security’. They refused our legal representatives entry. She received a fractured ankle and no one knew how. She received hospital acquired pneumonia. She got a hospital acquired urinary tract infection. Finally when they were sure she was dying they allowed us entry then ‘euthanised’ her secretly after we refused permission. Do you think this has anything to do with ineptitude?
‘It sounds like a good idea but it doesn’t work, like socialism, the reality is the opposite of the ideals it promises.’
I am sick and tired of hearing this argument, an idea that has been fed to you by TPTB so you convince yourself there is no alternative. I find it hilarious people repeat this line while the TPTB print money and give it away to the mega rich as quantitative easing. Wake up you live under a system built to make their lives easier and yours a dog eat dog existence, which it seems was fine for you and Doctor Coleman while they threw you a few crumbs. Unfortunately their time is coming rapidly to an end and so the whole manifestation of evil is falling with satan who will take as many with him as possible.
Please don’t start talking about The Soviet Union and Communism because this was another side of the same coin as the US and the UK were both funding the continuation of the Soviet Union throughout the ‘Cold War’. There is no red against blue because the TPTB control all sides.
God is the only answer to this because people are weak and unable to think of anyone other than themselves. God gave us The Laws to follow in The Ten Commandments but it was too burdensome and we preferred the lies satan told us, well his time is coming to an end and all speed The mighty Son of God Almighty.