On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:14:50 -0000, ":::Jerry::::"
wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 01:03:03 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


State monopolies didn't use their customers as an interest free
lending
bank.

There's no need when the state is bankrolling their wastage with
taxpayer's money.

More obsessions. He thinks if it state owned then the people who work
in
these organisation are lazy and incompetent.

The bureaucratic elements undoubtedly are.

So why are you suggesting increasing the bureaucratic elements, with all
this talk about people handing out vouchers then, what you should be pushing
for is less bureaucratic elements running the NHS and let the front line
people manage rather than hoards of back room accountants that were brought
in to try and run the hospital [1] as if it was a private sector business.

The necessary levels of administration for a voucher or equivalent
funding scheme are already present in the Dept. of Health.

The public sector does not attract the best business entrepreneurs
which is actually what is required to cut out the rubbish and waste.


[1] note the word 'Hospital', as in a hospital not the whole NHS. Even when
there are trusts there in normally two or three hospitals in the group. You
really do need to get a clue were the NHS wastes money before spouting utter
extreme right wing clap-trap.

I'm not spouting extreme anything but simply pointing out that it is
time for people to realise that the existing NHS system is a total
disaster. One doesn't need to look at the detail to realise how
broken it is.

- Into the front end goes virtually unlimited sums of taxpayer's money
agreed by politicians who are too stupid or too afraid to grasp the
nettle and shut the white elephant down.

- At the back end, there are dedicated and grossly underpaid staff
working in filthy conditions in many cases. Patients are (badly)
treated as a commodity.

- This only leaves a set of overhead functions in the middle staffed
by or led by the clueless or in some cases the corrupt.

It certainly isn't the answer to put medical staff completely in
charge because it isn't their skill set any more than a business
entrepreneur can perform appendictomies.

The reality is that we are paying for an organisation that is outmoded
and outdated and has lost its way. Successive governments have tried
unsuccessfully to fix it. THe only effective solution is
euthanasia.



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..andy

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