Problem is though, those working hard are already being punished by having to pay extortionate income tax + national insurance to support those abusing the system. As I said already though, the NHS is one of only many services that's abused and money is wasted on, there's an awful lot of things that could be cut back on to lower taxes.Heta wrote:Drugs and NHS have very much to do with each other so kinda hard to split it, people who abuse drugs will get sick etc, biggest problem with equal rights for everyone is that you always want to exclude some from that right. Sure free health care for everyone unless you have done this and that, the big question is where to draw a line, if to draw a line and how to be able to keep the line?
Is kinda like communism, looks excellent on paper, just impossible to put in use due to people being a factor then, and people are greedy by nature.
OK comparing NHS with communism might be a bit extreme but I hope you understand my point. There will always be people that will take what ever advantage of the system that is in use. But there is also (I hope more) people who do work for a living, pay there taxes etc, and should they be punished if they happen to get into an accident and will be in need for NHS just cause there are a few that abuse the system?
This post is not me agreeing or disagreeing with any of the once before, just me typing
One of my pet peeves is what goes on in schools, my job partly involves supporting schools IT and there's so many things that are poorly thought etc. For example, the goverment offers money to schools for puchasing software, maybe 10 - 50 software titles per school, the problem is when thinking up this scheme no one has considered who is going to roll out 50 PCs of software on 100 PCs baring in mind the majority of schools still use older RM networks running anything from Windows 95 with no real method of centrally rolling out software. It's all very giving schools money to use purely on software, but not providing them with money to pay for rolling it out and supporting it means it's ended up sat under the school secretaries desk doing nothing in the majority of cases. Then of course there's laptops for teachers, quite who's idea it was to try and pay for laptops for every teacher in the UK I'm not sure, ignoring the fact that some of the older generation teachers are scared to touch/use them, and the ones that got them free so don't care about them and break them regularly as well as the ones who let the kids pluck them to peices and jab the weak screens with pencils and stuff it begs the question, why can't teachers of all people who get a pretty decent salary buy their own laptops? thousands upon thousands of schools multiplied by an average of what, 20 - 30 teachers per school multiplied by £700 for a laptop + software. Even in our small catchment area it's £3.5mill of taxpayers money that just doesn't need to be spent.
Anyhow, I'm ranting now but my point is that you have to bare in mind that the NHS is one of only hundreds of money leaks in the UK.
