I don’t pay much attention to advertising, especially TV adverts. Years of resenting the intrusion of advertising into the shows I watch have conditioned me to pay very little attention. Whenever I select a show to watch, I simultaneously select a second show to have as an alternate. By using the ‘previous channel’ button on […]
An opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal the other day was very interesting. It’s written by a physician from New York, Dr. Marc Siegel. The short version of the article is that increasing numbers of physicians are rejecting insurance coverages from the government because of the low pay they provide to the physicians for […]
I’ve skipped over a host of articles about NHS failings over the past couple of months - I suppose that even I get tired of reporting the same old bad news all of the times. But this story which appeared today in the Daily Mail is just so heart-rending that I thought it deserved some […]
This opinion piece presents proof that when put together in a mash-up of lefty-looney causes, it is possible for one bad idea plus another bad idea to result in an idea that is worse than just the sum of the two original bad ideas. First the backstory: our dear friends at the NHS over in […]
At our dear friend, the Nurse of the Nanny State, the NHS, they’ve advanced their anti-smoking campaign to children as young as three years old. Other than being a bit ham-fisted and Big Brotherish, there’s nothing wrong with teaching the young about the dangers of tobacco use. Nothing at all. But it stops being fun […]
Just a quick note that the science in is in! Free-range chickens are more likely to be diseased than those raised in cages. Wow. Ain’t that a kick in the teeth to all those soccer-moomies in their Volvo SUV’s who won’t buy anything but the most expensive piece of chicken at Whole Foods? I guess […]
You haven’t heard of ‘presumed consent‘? It’s an idea being put forth by some academics in Britain. Their big idea is to make all organ donation opt-out instead of opt-in. What this means is that you no longer would have to expressly donate your organs. Once you die, those organs would become the property of […]
From the Telegraph.uk comes the following story:
Lives put at risk because of neurology delays
Lives are being put at risk because of NHS delays in diagnosing and treating neurological disorders, a major report will warn this week. By Laura Donnelly, Health CorrespondentLast Updated: 12:34AM GMT 11 Jan 2009
More than 90 per cent of hospitals are failing to […]
From the Telegraph online we find an interesting article about a leading cancer research organisation that claims that 6,500 people die each year just from the waiting lists and other delays in obtaining treatment from specialists. They also project that if the NHS matched the best treatment available in Europe, that they’d save 11,000 people […]
The headline pretty much tells the whole story”
Two-thirds of patients fail to get GP’s appointment within 48 hours
Of course this report comes from an independent source, so the NHS has their own figures that show just the opposite.
Read about it here.
All I can tell you is that just adding the uninsured in this country into […]
