Why Britain Needs To Rescue the National Health Service
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Repetitive Stress is acknowledged as an ailment these days. Some might say reading my articles is an example. That is the main problem with being ‘current’ here at MMA you know. Every other article seems to refer to Trump in some way and that’s hardly surprising. Trump is the current news. He has been ever since he somehow became President. It’s nigh on impossible not to be somewhat repetitive in order to be ‘current’, especially if the main talking points remain the same for a long period of time.
So, in an attempt to remain ‘current’ whilst avoiding repetition I will not mention overweight people, Brexit or immigrants in this article. Well, apart from just mentioning them now of course.
What I did mention in a recent article on overweight people was a bizarre conspiracy theory which suggested ‘the powers that be’ or ‘those in charge’ – I suppose, ultimately, it would be the government – are discreetly trying to ‘do us in’.
I suggested such a thing with my tongue so firmly residing in my cheek it was in danger of popping out the other side.
Then I started to think about it. And yes, I know, me and thinking as a combination can be a wee bit worrying but, never the less, I did start thinking.
Subliminal fast-food advertising to make us eat more junk food.
Underfunding our National Health Service to the point that people wait several months, sometimes years, for operations to prolong their lives with quality included.
Allowing our transport system, particularly our trains, to become so random and bewildering that everyone stress levels are through the roof even before they arrive at work. Assuming the train actually runs at all to get them there.
Allowing our police force to be decimated in numbers thereby not giving them the number of officers needed to even bother investigating many crimes at all. Apparently, 90 something percent of burglaries are not investigated.
Cutting council funds thereby cutting council services. Services cut include care of the elderly, care of children with special needs, a lack of mental health care and on and on it goes.
You know what this leads to don’t you. Higher and higher stress levels.
So, the ‘powers that be’ allow as much advertising as possible to get us to eat Big Macs for breakfast, dinner and tea with, possibly, a cheeseburger thrown in for supper and what do you get? A nation of enormously fat and unhealthy people.
Sorry. I forgot. I won’t mention them again.
But, this leads to various health issues such as diabetes and general poor health including heart and liver function and so forth.
Add to this the stress levels created by the government’s abysmal failure to support the National Health Service, the Police, local health services and so on and everyone’s stress levels go through the roof.
There you have it.
A perfect storm. Everyone’s fat and unhealthy. Their heart is in a bad way. Their stress levels go through the roof. They turn to alcohol – obviously cheap stuff – and their livers pack in. Everyone dies.
Well, not everyone obviously. The wealthy eat healthy food as they can afford to. They have private medical care. They don’t need public transport they have a chauffeur driven car. They don’t get burgled because they have expensive alarm systems and even private security.
See? Am I on to something here?
Whenever I chat to any left wing chums I often say jokingly, after they have been ‘on their soapbox’ about some capitalist evil or other, “Come to the revolution brothers and sisters” and laugh.
The more I think about this sort of thing the more I wonder whether I might end up not laughing at all.
Am I paranoid are they really out to get us?
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Of course, there are problems with the NHS, and there will always be problems for countries who have social safety nets when conservatives are running the government. These cold fish care nothing about the common man, only the exploitation of the middle class for the benefit of the rich.
Not sure they are out to get us or just out to help themselves. Here in the US we are point zero for all these ills. Who got fat and unhealthy first? Americans! Who has little to no public transportation to rely on? Americans! Who doesn’t have affordable healthcare? Need I say it again? Why? National Health would kill the golden goose of stocks in big pharma and for profit facilities. In a country the size of ours where cancer treatment alone runs into 10s of thousands of dollars a month, per person, we are not talking chump change. The insurance industry is the other big player. While the unwashed masses are young and relatively healthy they pay lots of taxes to support the big government machine, aging Americans pay outrageous amounts for drugs they need and once that Social Security date comes into view, the billionaires are counting on you to drop dead from your stressful life and unhealthy eating habits.
I always knew Britain tended to follow America. Ever since the end of WWII we’ve followed. Usually a decade or more behind.
America had street gangs in the 80’s we have them now.
Our politicians and wealthy want to see healthcare privatised.
In many ways we are you in the 80’s and sometimes you now…or at least, the wealthy have the ambition to be you now.