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2022-10-06

The NHS has always come in for a certain amount of stick, and some suggest that if a service is free at the point of use then it will inevitably be overwhelmed because the means of rationing a finite resource is simply moved from money to queuing. 

Others think that anything organised by "the government" is bound to fall over sooner or later due to both ever-changing political meddling and management by a remote multi-layered bureaucracy in semi-perpetual reorganisation. There is obvious truth in this - when did you ever hear about a shortage of NHS managers? Or about a new government that didn't have some pet scheme to "fix the NHS"?

In past times when I used to knock on doors to campaign for Brexit, I was "treated" to some horrific stories of those who had been unable to access any sensible treatment from the NHS. I wasn't specifically talking about the NHS but these stories came out anyway. 

Have things improved since then?

Well, the pandemic/scamdemic (choose your favoured noun) did not help and the aftermath is still with us, but there are also many other factors associated with that, which lie outside the scope of this article (but which can be explored elsewhere on this site).

The NHS was founded in 1948, is now 74 years old, deteriorating fast, and like a 74 year-old human that hasn't cared for nutrition and healthy life-style it consumes too much junk, does too little, worries more about itself than others, lives on government hand-outs (and big pharma fees) and being set in its ways doesn't wish to see the real problem.

John F Kennedy had it right:

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"

Some think this could accurately be rephrased with a judicious substitution:

"Ask not what you can do for Big Pharma, ask what all potential health products can do for your customers"

Also appropriate in respect of most front-line NHS staff:

"Lions led by donkeys".

Unhappily for the lions, it's impossible to imagine any US cavalry riding over the Atlantic to their rescue this time around. If they do come, it will simply be to mandate more quaxxines for every conceivable ill, real or imagined, as instructed by Bill Gates via his WHO.

Patients' needs be damned, there is Big Pharma to feed.