Hear hear for the Liberal Democrats. Through their principled stand on behalf of producer rights, they allowed the National Health Service to live up to its greatest principle: free at the point of death! The Telegraph has highlighted a new report studying the actions used by health service trusts to eke out their resources. Lengthen the time patients stay on the waiting list and they may lose patience and turn to the private sector. If not, then hopefully they will die if sick enough.
Some managers insisted that longer waiting times would lead to overall savings as “experience suggests that if patients wait longer then some will remove themselves from the list”. Interpreting this statement, the panel noted: “We understand that patients will 'remove themselves from the waiting list’ either by dying or by paying for their own treatment at private sector providers.”
Such results are achieved when you are a burden on the budget, rather than a customer who deserves service. Such professional practices have probably been embedded in this institution since 1948. Sixty years of the death panels and counting....
