"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:55:48 -0000, "IMM" wrote:




And replaced with what?

A system of public healthcare and a private one where users of it are
not penalised for doing so.

snip drivel

A recent TV programme. highlighted the health service on the Spanish
Costa's. They do operations, amputate needlessly, etc, because they MAKE
MORE MONEY, doing that. Putting health into the market place is stupidity.
The standards are always lowered.

We could farm everything out to India, and then the cost would be even
more
to the country in social payments, crime, broken homes etc. No one ever
looks at the big picture.

The right thing to do would be to spend some of the money saved in
retraining and reskilling those affected by such outsourcing. There
is nothing new in the notion of jobs in certain sectors moving to
lower cost production areas. Ultimately, attempting to control that
by artificial means and props doesn't work.

It does. You have to slowly introduce outsourcing, so skills and
re-trained.

It would be far better to accept that that is
the way that the market is going and dealing with
it positively.

I'd say, a couple of hundred grand
should be enough for anybody.

Why? This is a matter between employer, employee and shareholders.
It isn't anybody else's business.

Golden parachutes should be outlawed. They are just despicable.

They are nobody's business apart from the parties involved.

They are! Through the drugs I buy, prescribed by the NHS, I pay fro SKB
parachutes.