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Foz wrote: Then the NHS needs sorting out before it can handle 'free healthcare for all'. Having spent 12 hours waiting for a doctor in Brighton A&E (who never came)to see my mother in law, I realised that although the NHS is essentially great, it is well out of its depth and constrained by stupidly expensive bureaucracy. I reckon 40% of the people there were drunks sleeping it off - this wasn't even a Friday night!
To be fair, Foz, it must be very difficult to manage such a massive organisation such as the NHS (isn't it the fourth largest employer in the world) ?
How do you know when "customers" will arrive? You either over-staff (and waste money) or risk the long wait when they are busy.
Re - the self-inflicted ... YES they should be charged full rate BEFORE they are treated !
Pattaya
JK2006 wrote: Nobody would argue scrapping all borders, like every policy, would have some negatives - my argument is that it would have far, far more positives. All the thousands of dead "boat people" trying to get into Europe from Africa would still be alive and thriving; which I reckon is many more lives saved than those killed by a handful of barmy extremists.
Enforcing proper punishments for illegal entry,and denying benefits to criminals would have an even better deterrent effect Mr King!
And it would allow us to choose those immigrants who would benefit us here,not the useless ones who's sons and daughters will be joining the next lot of riots as they cannot fit in here.
Then the NHS needs sorting out before it can handle 'free healthcare for all'. Having spent 12 hours waiting for a doctor in Brighton A&E (who never came)to see my mother in law, I realised that although the NHS is essentially great, it is well out of its depth and constrained by stupidly expensive bureaucracy. I reckon 40% of the people there were drunks sleeping it off - this wasn't even a Friday night!
JK2006
Nobody would argue scrapping all borders, like every policy, would have some negatives - my argument is that it would have far, far more positives. All the thousands of dead "boat people" trying to get into Europe from Africa would still be alive and thriving; which I reckon is many more lives saved than those killed by a handful of barmy extremists.